Brian Chira’s body was on Monday, March 18, 2024, moved from the City Mortuary and taken to the Kenyatta University Funeral Home.
A postmortem was conducted on Chira’s lifeless body before it was moved to KU mortuary for preservation ahead of burial.
Family, friends and well-wishers gathered at City Mortuary on Monday to view Chira’s body after the autopsy before it was moved to KU mortuary.
Speaking to vloggers, friends said they resorted to moving Chira’s body to the KU mortuary because it is closer to Githunguri where he will be interred.
The late TikToker was an orphan, raised by his grandmother.
TikTok family organizing Chira’s burial said that he would be laid to rest in Githunguri, Kiambu County at his grandmother’s farm.
The burial date has not yet been communicated.
Death
Brian Chira was killed in a hit-and-run accident on Saturday night March 16, 2024.
Zeleck Momanyi, who was present when the TikToker was hit by a speeding lorry, narrated the events of the fateful Saturday night.
The witness noted that a drunk Chira alighted from the motorbike that was carrying them and started running away to avoid paying the boda boda rider.
Momanyi added that a white Canter hit Chira as he was fleeing.
“Tukaenda tukafika junction so nlikua nataka kudivert kuenda nyumbani na unfortunately Brian alikua anaenda different direction so alikua anataka kumwacha hapo lakini venye alikua mveli alisema tena naomba munisongeshe munifikishe mahali fulani, tusonge mbele kidogo. Aya nkaambia boda boda tusonge alafu turudi unipeleke home. So after tumesonga tumefika mahali alituambia, akashuka tu pikipiki and then mtu wa pikipiki kumuitisha fare akaanza tu kukimbia. Before tu asonge two steps mbele hivi ndo gari ilitokea tu ikampiga,” Momanyi narrated.
“Canter ya white. Ili speed off ikaenda,” he added.
Momanyi recalled that the impact threw Brian Chira meters ahead and that the lorry that hit him also ran over his body before speeding away.
“Alipigwa akaenda distance then gari ikamfwata mbele ikampita juu,” he said.
The witness was taken to the Karuri Police Station where he recorded a statement.
“Nilijaribu tu kutafuta venye naweza kumsaidia sikupata namna yoyote nkapiga 999 so nkaongea na hao askari headquarters wakanipatia number ya PC Mwaniki. Kumuongelesha akanitumia number ya officer ako incharge that night ndo akamtuma akakuja akanipata hapo ndo nakaenda nkaadikisha statement kwa hio Karuri station,” Momanyi said.
