Uganda’s national police spokesman Andrew Felix Kaweesi has been shot dead at his home in the capital, Kampala.
He was killed along with his driver and a bodyguard, city police spokesman Emilian Kayima told the BBC’s Patience Atuhaire at the scene.
The bodies have now been driven away, according to a tweet from a local newspaper.
There have been other killings of high profile Ugandans in recent years.
Last November, Major Sulaiman Kiggundu was shot dead along with his bodyguard
And in March 2015 , lawyer Joan Kagezi, who was prosecuting the 2010 Kampala bombing suspects was also shot on the way home by armed men on a motorbike.