Dickson Ndiema, 32, died on Monday evening in the intensive care unit of the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya. He was under police watch there amid pending murder charges, Kennedy Apindi, a criminal investigation officer with western Kenya's Trans-Nzoia police, told The Washington Post.
Police in Trans-Nzoia county said Ndiema set Cheptegei on fire Sept. 1 in a violent attack weeks after the 33-year-old long distance runner competed at the Paris Olympics, finishing 44th in women's marathon.
Cheptegei sustained burns on about 80 percent of her body in the attack, according to Kenyan news outlet The Star, and will be buried in Uganda on Saturday.
Following her death, the city of Paris said it planned to name a sports venue in her honor.
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