Mr. Stafford Osore, trip came to an end in an airport tragedy when he passed out upon landing at a New York airport after departing from Nairobi, Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Mr. Odore’s terrible death is shrouded in mystery, since the circumstances surrounding it have drawn the interest of both his bereaved family and a curious public.
The question on everyone’s mind is, what caused his death?
In an exclusive interview with a local online publication Nairobi News, the family revealed that preliminary findings show that Mr Osore had blood clots on both legs as they were all swollen.
“The doctors told us that the right leg was more swollen than the left one. The clot from the right leg went up to his lungs, and that is how he died,” Mr Felix Osore, his elder brother, said.
The definitive cause of death, according to the medical staff, which included pathologists who performed numerous tests on his body, will be made public in the following three months.
Mr. Felix claimed that additional studies in genetics, toxicology, and virology needed to be performed by the medical team.
Toxicology is the discipline of science that deals with the nature, effects, and detection of poisons, whereas genetics is the study of heredity and the variation of inherited features.
The scientific field of virology is concerned with the investigation of viruses.
“So the final results on his death certificate will be handed to the family in the next three months,” Mr Felix said.
Mr Felix had driven to the John F. Kennedy airport alongside his two children to receive Mr Osore, but this anticipated gathering remained unrealised.
“Once the plane landed, he notified us through our WhatsApp family group he had landed safely,” Mr Felix said.
This was his last message to them before his passing. Mr Osore’s message now holds a haunting significance.
He claimed that despite waiting for him at the airport the entire time in the hopes of seeing him, he never arrived and that he had no idea that his brother had already passed out and was receiving medical attention.
Mr. Felix claimed that he had taken his two children—a boy who was 7 years old and a daughter who was 2 years old—to pick up his deceased brother.
“I was there by 3:30pm even before he had sent the message that he had arrived here in New York safely. Around 4:33pm, I asked him through the family WhatsApp group why it was taking him long to come to the waiting area but he never responded,” Mr Felix said, adding that when he called him the phone went unanswered.
According to him, when he took long to respond, the son also suggested that probably Stafford was not at the airport and they could just go back home.
However, Mr Felix said that he asked his son to relax and they give their uncle some more time but deep down his heart he felt like something was not right.
“I decided that its better I take the kids back home and come back alone to find out where my brother was, as he had told us he landed safely,” he said.
After driving from New York to New Jersey, Mr. Felix told his wife that he had returned the kids to their home and that she should return to the airport to hunt for his brother.
He got a call from the New York Port Authority asking about his contact with Mr. Stafford while he was making his way back to the airport.
He let them know that they were related and that he was on his way to the airport to pick up the man as they had arranged.
At that point, he learned that his brother had become ill at the airport upon landing, been taken to the hospital, and been declared dead when he arrived.
“I just asked them which hospital he was in and I drove there only to find the body of my late brother,” Mr Felix said.
He claimed that the New York Port Authority had told him that once his late brother entered the first-class section, he became unstable.
Fortunately, an airline hostess noticed that something wasn’t right and she swiftly ordered him a wheelchair.
After being pushed for some time, he rose up to take a few paces before collapsing and gripping his chest.
Three weeks ago, Mr. Felix traveled to Kenya from the United States and stayed with his sister in South B, Lang’ata Sub-County, Nairobi.
Later, he visited his sister in Bondo, Siaya County, and then proceeded to Homa Bay County, where he also met his mother.
He was working in the US and he arrived there in 2015 as a Masters student.