A 34-year old Kenyan woman was pronounced
dead on arrival at a Houston hospital Tuesday evening after being found in
critical condition in her apartment.
Local police said that caretakers of the
apartment complex in which Ms Mary Anne Wangui lived were shocked when they
went into her house for routine maintenance only to find her unconscious.
They immediately called the medical personnel
but she never made it to the hospital.
Leah Wanja, a sister to the deceased, told
the Nation that the family was in shock following the incident.
“She was in high spirits on Tuesday. Nobody
would have suspected any illness,” she said.
Wangui’s husband, Mr Billy Williams, was too
overcome by emotions to talk to the media.
On Wednesday, the body of the deceased was
taken to the County coroner’s office for autopsy.
A spokesperson from the Harris County
Coroner’s office told the Nation by phone that pathologists were
performing a postmortem to establish the cause of death.
“We should be able to have a report by Friday afternoon,” he said.
“We should be able to have a report by Friday afternoon,” he said.
The incident comes only a day after a Kenyan
couple in Roswell, Georgia, was admitted in hospital in critical condition following a domestic fight.
Local police have said that they suspect a
case of attempted murder-suicide in which the woman, Emily Griggs, was stabbed
severally while the husband, Obadiah Makambi Mokua, was found writhing in pain
after ingesting poison.
By Thursday evening, Ms Griggs had left the
ICU at North Fulton Hospital while Mr Mokua was still under tight police
security at the same hospital. Their three children had been taken by the
authorities to a kids’ shelter.
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