Police are investigating a case of murder and suicide after a woman and a man died in a shack in Khayelitsha.
|||Cape Town - Police believe a Khayelitsha man shot his partner and then himself early on Wednesday.
Police are investigating a case of murder and suicide after a woman and a man died due to gunshot wounds in a shack in Khayelitsha, RR Section.
Shortly after 5am, neighbours said they heard five shots coming from a house shared by a man, his girlfriend and the man’s teenage son.
Neighbour Regina Likotsi said she could hear the woman screaming after the first shot.
“We were scared but came outside to see. The boy was running to a neighbour’s house and called for help. We approached the house and knocked and tried to open the door, but it was locked. We did not want to risk kicking it down so we called the police.”
When police arrived, a final shot went off in the house.
Police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Traut said: “As police entered the house, with the assistance of the Tactical Response Unit, they found the bodies of two persons, a male and female, inside the house, one on the floor and the other on the bed. A licensed firearm was found next to the body of the man.”
A case of murder had been opened and initial investigations suggest the man shot his girlfriend before turning the gun on himself.
Traut said police were withholding the names of the couple until Friday.
Cape Argus