EVATON – This is after a quartet allegedly trespassed at a home on Bates Road, Evaton in the early hours of Wednesday, February 22, and found the owner of the shack wide awake.

Screams and helpless cries from the trespassers were the order of the day as the shack owner apparently hacked them to death. Police were called to the scene and arrived to three dead bodies and a bleeding, unconscious man. Speaking to Sedibeng Ster, Elizabeth Mkhwanazi (75), a mother to the owner of the shack, who remains behind bars on charges of murder, said that she was woken up by screams.

“I was drinking pills at midnight when my grandchild came screaming in my bedroom saying that there was a big fight in my son’s shack. I went out to see what was happening. From a distance, all I could hear as I was approaching was shack bangs and voices of men screaming. I peeped and saw people fighting, I immediately turned back, and called the police,” she said.

Mkhwanazi said that when she went back to the shack, all she could see were dead bodies.

“I saw men lying on the floor and asked my son what happened, but he couldn’t talk. Police arrived and removed the three bodies. One man was taken by an ambulance. I can’t tell you what the fight was about, but all I know is that there was a huge fight and many dead bodies. Police took my sons saying they are going to ask them questions,” she said.

The visibly shaken old lady said the incident wasn’t the first one to take place.

“Last year, about six men ambushed my son and shot him six times. When I heard gunshots, I went outside and saw them running away. Nothing was done then,” she said.

Sedibeng Cluster Police Spokesman, Sergeant Shaan Motsapi said that two men were arrested on three counts of murder and assault.

“We learned that there was a fight at the residence and three people died after being assaulted. The bodies had opened wounds. At this moment, we can’t detail the motive of the fight however investigations are underway. Two suspects were arrested,” he said.