LIMPOPO – THE bail application of a man who allegedly shot a 63-year-old woman dead and seriously injured her daughter, who later died in hospital, has been postponed to May 18.
Frederick Molewa (35) of Rwanda village in Nwamitwa, is facing two counts of murder relating to the shooting to death of Mary Mangena and her daughter Hermina Mangena (40) of Sasekani village in Muhlaba Cross last month.
Molewa was appearing for the third time in the Ritavi magistrate’s court on Monday when the bail hearing was postponed.
Tzaneen cluster police spokesperson, Lt Col Moatshe Ngoepe said the suspect, who disappeared after the shooting, was arrested in Germiston the following week by the Tzaneen cluster police task team and Ritavi police detectives.
Ngoepe said it was alleged that on the day of the incident, the suspect stormed into the home of the elderly woman and when she asked what was happening he started shooting.
He said the police found the two women lying in a pool of blood with multiple gunshot wounds. The daughter was still alive and taken to hospital where she died the following morning.
