City businessman Katanga shot dead at Mbuya residence after fight with wife

Katanga was a known big player in the procurement and supplies business, working with the UPDF and several other government agencies. He was aged 61.

Police in Bugolobi revealed last evening they responded to a call about a shooting at a residence at Mbuya Hill in Nakawa Division. 

The OC station of Bugolobi ASP Peter Ogwang and his team upon arriving at the scene, said they found Katanga “soaked in a pool of blood in his master bedroom with a wound on the head resulting from a gunshot.”

One Tricia, a daughter of the deceased told police detectives at the scene that her father had developed a misunderstanding with her mother, Molly Katanga.

She said that shortly afterward, she heard a gunshot in the bedroom, and upon rushing there, she found her father leaning on the bed with blood coming out of his head and her mother lying on the ground seemingly unconscious.

Molly Katanga was rushed to IHK for treatment by the family members before the arrival of the Police.

According to the Police report, a pistol number UG 16222 00061 CZ99 COMPACT was recovered at the scene.

Some family members who were at the home at the time of the incident were arrested and taken in for questioning.

Investigations into the matter are still ongoing.