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News24 reports that Western Cape Police are on the hunt for two men who gunned down a 37-year-old off-duty police sergeant from Bellville South on Sunday evening.
The 37-year-old succumbed to gunshot wounds in Khayelitsha, Site B. "Preliminary information suggests that the member visited a friend with whom he was seated in his car when two unknown gunmen disembarked a Toyota Quantum that stopped alongside them," police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm Pojie said on Monday. The suspects opened fire and hit both occupants several times. The policeman succumbed on the scene to multiple injuries, and his friend was rushed to hospital for medical treatment. Police Oversight and Community Safety MEC Reagen Allen reacted: “We cannot have them get away with this or any other murder. Those who attack law enforcement, including SAPS officers, should face the additional charge of treason, as they are directly attacking the state. We need these perpetrators behind bars serving life sentences without ever being released.” The latest shooting came two weeks after two off-duty constables were shot dead in Gugulethu.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Marvin Charles at News24
- Read too, Off-duty police sergeant dies in hail of bullets in Khayelitsha, at TimesLIVE
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