National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola and Police Minsiter, Senzo Mchunu attend an SAPS event in Johannesburg on October 10, 2024.
He briefed the media in Parliament yesterday, alongside Police Minister Senzo Mchunu on the latest information available.Four suspects, among them a parolee, who was handed a life sentence in 2002 for killing a police officer, have been arrested.Masemola says they are on the hunt for one suspect, but they do not exclude more arrests taking place.
He says, “We expect more arrests in future. We are having one we are aware of, on the run. We can’t say it will be the last and as the Minister said, we are also looking for someone in Correctional Services, we are also looking for arrests in Correctional Services.”“Motive, we do not know, don’t want to speculate. We must just wait for processes in court, you will get real motive, as to what it was, how they are linked.
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu says they are investigating the possibility of the shooting being masterminded from within prison. “Sometimes police get info and we need to translate in complete evidence. It’s a story like that, until confirmed, will say so once that happened.”AKA, Tibz murder accused to appeal extradition from Eswatini Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.