Mohamed Shahid Butt, owner of the Modern Coast fleet of buses was on Friday night at around 8.15pm shot dead about 300m from Changamwe police station, in Mombasa.
Mohamed was traveling in a Nissan Sports car, registration KBW 299N, with his 30-year-old son, Haroun Butt when a black car overtook and blocked their way. Two men got off the car, walked up to them and shot Mohamed at close range. The son, who family said had been picked from the Moi International Airport in Mombasa was slightly injured during the incident. He was said to have just arrived from London.
The scene of crime was not cordoned off and a motorcyclist who witnessed the shooting was not taken in for questioning.
Mohamed, who owns a chain of businesses in the country, was on 27 December, 2013 charged alongside Abdulaziz Ahmed Essak with funding radical youths in Majengo to terrorize preachers and other Muslims.
The two were charged before Senior Resident Magistrate Richard Odenyo and released on cash bail of sh1,000,000 each. The case was mentioned on 7 February, 2014.
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