Police in Masindi District are investigating circumstances under which a journalist attached to Kings Broadcasting Services was shot and killed in the wee hours this morning.
Preliminary investigations indicate Gerald Aseera, a news anchor and talk show host at the station, was shot in the chest at around 12.30am by a private security guard at a soda depot in Masindi town.
A colleague at the radio station who asked not to be named in this story says Aseera was shot dead last night by a private security guard, Simon Ekou 38, adding that he was just moving in town and the guard suspected him of being a thief.
The journalist died moments after being rushed to Masindi General Hospital.
By press time his body was still lying at the hospital mortuary as police investigate the shooting.
May his soul rest in Eternal peace. END.