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A quiet Monte Vista has been left shaken after the bodies of a police officer and his girlfriend were discovered inside their home last week.
The tragedy, which unfolded in Baracouta Street, has sparked an Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) probe into what’s believed to be a murder-suicide involving a member of the Bellville Crime Prevention Unit.
According to Ipid spokesperson Phaladi Shuping, neighbours heard several gunshots being fired on Monday, October 27, at about 8pm, but the police were never called. The following afternoon, at around 3pm, colleagues of the female victim visited her residence after she did not report for duty (News24).
‘Her colleagues spoke to her sister who stays at the same address. The sister went to the female deceased’s room and she found her lying on her bed, with multiple gunshot wounds, and her boyfriend/male deceased (SAPS member) was lying on the floor,’ Shuping told Cape Argus.
It was later confirmed that both the officer and the woman were in their 40s, according to the Cape Argus. ‘It appears that the female deceased was shot six times in the upper body, and the male deceased had a single gunshot wound to the head,’ Shuping added.
The officer was reportedly supposed to report for a night shift with the Bellville Crime Prevention Unit but did not show up. A pathologist was then called to the scene, where both were declared dead.
Meanwhile, Goodwood Community Policing Forum (CPF) Chairperson Abdullah Sydney told Cape Argus’ sister publication, the Daily Voice, that the incident is being ‘treated as a murder’ and remains at a ‘very sensitive stage of the investigation.’
The case has since been formally handed over to Ipid for further investigation.
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