An account on Twitter attributed to Kenyan female journalist Kathy Peterson claimed that 17 shots were fired at senior journalist Arshad Sharif’s car, while the two bullets that hit Arshad Sharif in the head were fired from close range.

Earlier, referring to the police report, Kenyan local media said that Arshad Sharif’s car was hit by nine bullets.

The claim of a close-range shot has created a twist in the case as the Kenyan police had said that Arshad Sharif’s car was fired upon by policemen when it failed to stop at a barricade.

“Kathy Peterson” raised several questions between Tuesday and Wednesday night when Arshad Sharif’s dead body arrived at Islamabad Airport. Kathy also shared photos of the casket, which was draped in the Pakistani flag. In one picture, a woman and a child are sitting next to a coffin.

However, after checking the profile it emerged that this female Kenyan journalist Kathy Peterson does not exist in reality.

This account is created by fraudsters under the name Kathy Patterson.

To make the account look genuine, the fraudsters have put a photo of a Kenyan female journalist who is affiliated with the Kenyan channel TV47. The woman in the photo is journalist Flora Lemiucci who reports on politics for TV47.

During the last two days, Flora has re-tweeted the statement of the Kenyan police and the tweets of local journalists regarding the murder of Arshad Sharif, but has not made any claims regarding the murder of the journalist.

However, the fraudsters not only claimed that Arshad Sharif was shot at close range but also said that “Unfortunately, my country has given the body of a journalist to Pakistan and is not even ready for a transparent investigation.”

The fraudster also said that she could not trust her Kenyan government, adding that someone had told her that there was a price on Arshad Sharif’s head.

A total of 119 tweets, many of which are old and others on global issues, but most of them are related to Pakistan, were used by the fakers to give the account a genuine color. According to social media experts, a major proof of the fakeness of such an account is its

Twitter handle, which is not created using a name, but with similar words and numbers. Kathy Peterson’s Twitter handle was created from @555Says.