News24 reports that a Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) officer was shot and killed during a shootout with members of the SA Police Service (SAPS) outside her Dobsonville home in Gauteng on Saturday evening.

According to Phaladi Shuping, spokesperson for the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), the deceased was the mother of a suspected reckless driver, who was being chased by the police after failing to heed a call to stop. After he stopped at a certain house in Monaisa Street, the police officers approached the driver and asked why he had refused to stop. The driver was told that he was under arrest for negligent and reckless driving. The deceased then allegedly came out of her home and argued with the police officers. "She allegedly told them that she was going to get her gun... went into the house, and started shooting at the police officers," Shuping indicated. The woman was killed when the police returned fire. IPID is probing the incident.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nkosikhona Duma at News24
• See too, JMPD officer loses her life in violent bid to protect her son from arrest, at TimesLIVE

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