The police watchdog is investigating death as a result of police action following an alleged shootout between law enforcement agents and a group of suspected robbers at Teba Business Park along Booysen Road in Selby. crime police
Pretoria - Police watchdog, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate Death , on Friday said it is investigating a death as a result of police action following an alleged shootout between law enforcement agents and a group of suspected robbers at Teba Business Park along Booysen Road in Selby, Johannesburg.
The alert police officers allegedly monitored the area and spotted five suspects travelling in a charcoal Honda CR-V at around 6pm."Later in the evening, they received again the information that the suspects were coming on the 8th of September, 2021. Indeed, they came, and when the police approached them, the shooting ensued between the police and the suspects."
She said two suspects managed to evade police, but one was fatally shot. A post-mortem on the deceased man will be conducted on Monday. Captain Xoli Mbele said officers had operationalised information they had, and while they were on the lookout, they spotted the"suspicious grey Honda CRV with four occupants"."They retaliated, and one of them was shot once in the upper body. Paramedics certified him dead on the scene. Two were apprehended after they jumped out of the car and ran away," said Mbele.
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