Two suspects have been arrested and charged with the murder of Mark Lifman (57), that occurred outside the Garden Route Mall in George on Sunday morning, 3 November, Cape {town} Etc reports.
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Lifman was fatally gunned down outside the mall and both perpetrators fled the crime scene.
Police, law enforcement officials, security companies and crime watch groups were activated to be on the lookout for the suspects in the region.
The suspects, aged 37 and 53, were apprehended ‘a couple of hours later’, near Uniondale on Sunday afternoon. The vehicle they were travelling in was also confiscated, according to a press statement issued by the SAPS.
Both suspects are expected to appear in George Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning, 5 November.
Lifman, who has been described as being an alleged ‘underworld figure’, was scheduled to appear in the Western Cape High Court on Monday, 4 November, for the Brian Wainstein murder trial.
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