FREE STATE. – Four people, including two children aged fifteen and four years old, died after they were wounded in a shooting incident in Grassland 2, Bloemfontein on Wednesday morning (four November). The police are investigating the incident as a triple murder linked to domestic violence, as well as an inquest.
Lt.Col. Thabo Covane, police spokesperson, says police were called to an RDP house shortly after 08:00 after neighbours heard shots. On their arrival, the bodies of a 35-year-old man, a 33-year-old woman and their fifteen-year-old daughter were found in the house. Their four-year-old son was transported by paramedics to a local hospital, but later also succumbed to his injuries. All four victims had gunshot wounds to the head.
According to police, the 35-year-old man was a security officer stationed at the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court office in Bloemspruit. He went on duty that morning and checked out a company firearm. The firearm was found next to his body.
The investigation into the murders and inquest has been assigned to Lt.Col. Rankhala David Ramasoala. Anyone with relevant information can call him on 082 427 7390.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
