Austrian engineer Gaston Glock, whose eponymous Glock pistol achieved global cult status, has died at the age of 94. Image by Pexels/Somchai Kongkamsri
Nurse shot dead while on duty in KZN
Jabulisiwe Mthethwa, a uMhlathuze nurse, was shot dead on Wednesday around 10am at a clinic in Richards Bay.
Austrian engineer Gaston Glock, whose eponymous Glock pistol achieved global cult status, has died at the age of 94. Image by Pexels/Somchai Kongkamsri
Police are searching for Mthethwa’s estranged husband as he is the main suspect, reported Times Live.
PERPETRATOR SPOKE TO VICTIM
uMhlathuze Municipality spokesperson, Bongani Gina, said the man was armed with a handgun and fired three shots – two to the victim’s chest and one to her neck.
“The perpetrator, allegedly identified as her estranged husband and a city employee in the roads unit of the infrastructure services department, entered the clinic premises and engaged in a brief conversation with the victim before committing this heinous act,” said Gina.
Paramedics responded swiftly, but the victim passed away at the scene.
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SUSPECT LEFT A NOTE
“The suspect left a note at the clinic’s reception desk and fled the scene in a municipal truck, later found abandoned in Ngwelezane, outside eMpangeni, after being tracked,” said Gina.
Colonel Robert Netshiunda, KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, confirmed that the suspect left a note. “The suspect left what looked like a note detailing why he killed the woman at that spot and police tracked his vehicle to his homestead in Empangeni. A search at his house resulted in the recovery of a firearm whose serial number was filed off,” he said.
Richards Bay police have opened a murder case.
Nkosenye Zulu, the Municipal manager of uMhlathuze, closed the clinic and arranged trauma counselling for co-workers who witnessed the murder.
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KZN IS SA’S MURDER CAPITAL
The Witness reported that KwaZulu-Natal contributed 17.2% to the country’s contact crime between April and June 2023. The province had 1 276 more contact crime cases than in the same period last year. A total of 1 584 murder cases were reported in this period.
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