Cheptegei competed within the girls’s marathon on the Paris Olympics lower than a month earlier than the assault.
NAIROBI, Kenya — A person accused of dousing gasoline on an Ugandan Olympic athlete, inflicting her loss of life days later, has succumbed to burns sustained within the assault, in keeping with the Kenyan hospital the place he was handled.
Dickson Ndiema was admitted on the Moi Referral Hospital within the western Eldoret metropolis for burns overlaying 30% of his physique. Ndiema is alleged to have sustained the accidents after setting on fire Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who died final Thursday with 80% of burns on her physique.
The hospital spokesperson, Owen Menach, advised The Related Press on Tuesday that the hospital would challenge an announcement later however confirmed that the affected person had died.
Ndiema and Cheptegei have been mentioned to have quarreled over a bit of land that the athlete purchased in Kenya, in keeping with a report filed by the native chief.
Cheptegei competed within the girls’s marathon on the Paris Olympics lower than a month earlier than the assault. She completed in forty fourth place.
Cheptegei’s dad and mom mentioned their daughter purchased land within the Trans Nzoia county to be close to Kenya’s many athletic coaching facilities.
The athlete’s father, Joseph Cheptegei, advised reporters final week that Ndiema, his daughter’s former boyfriend, was stalking and threatening her and the household had knowledgeable police.
He mentioned he wished justice and lamented that the suspect was not being guarded at his hospital mattress and expressed concern that he may escape.
Cheptegei is anticipated to be buried at her house in Uganda on Saturday.
