Three South African Police Service (Saps) constables are dead after a male officer allegedly forced entry into a home where his former girlfriend, also a serving constable, was with another male colleague, in a shooting that claimed all three lives in the early hours of Thursday morning. Just before 1am, the Saps received a report of shots being fired at a residential address on Rudman Street in Kariega. Responding officers arrived to find three constables with multiple gunshot wounds.
According to Saps Eastern Cape spokesperson Brigadier Nobuntu Gantana, two of the officers were pronounced dead at the scene, while a third was rushed to Cuyler Hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries. Gantana confirmed that the identities of the three constables had not yet been released, as next-of-kin notifications were still being completed. “The incident unfolded at approximately 00:45 at 21 Rudman Street, Kariega,” she said.
According to Gantana, preliminary investigations point to what appears to have been a domestic altercation that ended in tragedy. A male constable, understood to be the former boyfriend of a female constable, allegedly forced entry into the home where she and another male constable were present. “Witnesses reported hearing shots fired, after which all three members sustained fatal injuries.” Gantana confirmed that physical evidence had been secured at the scene.
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“A state-issued firearm was confiscated at the scene, along with 10 live rounds,” she said. She added that ballistic analysis would form a central part of the ongoing investigation.
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