Suspect shot dead, elderly couple injured in shootout
A 75-year-old man has been shot and wounded, while a suspected robber was shot dead on Schultz Street, Roodeport, on the West Rand, yesterday.
Roodepoort police spokesperson Warrant Officer Nonhlanhla Khumalo said the elderly man`s wife came home after shopping when four suspects allegedly overpowered her just as she pulled into the driveway. They allegedly started assaulting her and her screams alarmed her husband, who was inside the house.
He ran outside with his firearm and was apparently shot in the stomach by the suspect. When he returned fire, the robber was killed, Roodepoort Record reported.
“Three suspects fled in a white Citi Golf. The man and his wife were both rushed to Milpark Hospital,” added Khumalo.
Cases of armed robbery and attempted murder are under investigation.
In a separate incident, a robbery suspect was shot dead by EMPD officer on the N12 highway, near the Rondebult Bridge, in Boksburg, Gauteng, in May.
Boksburg North police spokesperson Lieutenant Juanita Coetzer said the deceased and his accomplice had just robbed Edgars store at the Mayfield Square, near Daveyton.
“They stole clothes and cellphones and drove away in a white Corsa bakkie,” added Coetzer. While on the highway, the two men were pulled over by the metro police officers. The officers who stopped them were not aware of the Mayfield Square robbery, said Coetzer.
The passenger in the suspect’s vehicle got out to meet an EMPD officer, who was approaching their vehicle. EMPD spokesperson Kobeli Mokheseng said the driver of the car tried to bribe the officer with R100 after claiming he did not have a license.
Mokheseng said the passenger of the Opel approached the passenger in the EMPD vehicle with a gun and tried to disarm him.
“The driver of the Metro police vehicle noticed this and shot at him, fatally wounding the man. The suspect died on the scene after he succumbed to his wounds,” added Mokheseng.
– Caxton News Service
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