UPDATE (14:30)
A family member of the deceased asked the police this morning to investigate because they could not get hold of the 31-year-old man or his wife (25).
Const Wiseman Mbembe went to the couple’s flat and knocked on the door, but there was no answer although the couple’s vehicles were in the car park.
He and Capt Heintjie Alberts climbed a ladder to the couple’s veranda on the third floor and gained access via a sliding door.
The bodies of the man, his wife and their baby daughter (six months) were discovered in the second bedroom.
They found the woman and baby on the bed. The woman was shot in the neck and the baby in the chest at close range. The man was slumped over the body of his wife and had an entry wound to the left temple.
“A firearm registered in the name of Wonder Nkosi (31) was lying on the floor next to the man (suspect),” said Sgt Sibusiso Mbuli, communication officer of the Evander Police.
”It is alleged the man shot his wife and child then himself with a 9 mm pistol.”
A friend said the murdered woman left her husband two weeks ago.
A close friend to the woman (25) who was allegedly shot by her husband in an apparent murder-suicide, said the woman was very unhappy in her marriage.
“She often visited me and talked about her unhappy marriage. She actually left her husband two weeks ago, but returned after he had begged her to come back,” the friend who did not want to be identified, told the Ridge Times.
She said her friend had left her husband because he had threatened her with a knife and used it to cut open the front of her dress.
“I feel like I failed her for not being harder on her and demanding that she stay away from her husband.”
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VIDEO UPDATE (13:05)
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EVANDER – A family of three was found dead in their apartment at Leopard Tree Place complex in Arkasia Road this morning, 3 May.
According to the police it appears to have been a murder-suicide during which the man shot his wife and baby daughter before turning the gun on himself during the early hours of this morning.
The little girl was about a year old.
Capt Heintjie Alberts and Const Wiseman Mbembe were the first to enter the flat.
The police’s forensic team is on the scene at the moment.
No other information is available yet. Updates to follow.
