Onyum confessed to having bought three knives, one of which was purchased from a supermarket located in Bunga (Kampala), while other three were bought near the Old Taxi Park. He later entered the daycare, locked the members of management inside their office, also locked the gate to the daycare using padlocks he found there, before he accessed the children’s play area and started hacking them. In the end, four children were killed.