News24 reports that a man accused of stabbing a member of the public and shooting a court orderly dead at the Motherwell Magistrate's Court on Wednesday is fighting for his life in hospital after Anti-Gang Unit members shot him.

It is alleged that Andile Nyoka, 26, stabbed someone outside before he entered the court building, grabbed a firearm from the waist of the orderly, 42-year-old Sergeant Mario Angelique Nel, and fired a single gunshot at him. The orderly died at the scene. Nel, a police officer for 17 years, had been putting up the court rolls for the day when Nyoka approached from behind and grabbed his service pistol. A police incident report reveals that Nel wrestled with Nyoka to regain control of the firearm, which was pulled out of his holster causing the retention cord to break. Nyoka shot Nel before fleeing with the firearm. He used the firearm to force a taxi driver at gunpoint to drive him away from the scene. The driver jumped out of the taxi at a traffic intersection three streets from the court building. Nyoka then saw members of the Anti-Gang Unit driving by, and he fired shots at them, triggering an exchange of gunfire. He was wounded in the process and is under police guard in hospital. Commuters in the taxi were not injured. Nyoka faces charges of murder, armed robbery and hijacking.

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