Over the weekend, a shooting incident happened that shook Cape Town.
At New Somerset Hospital, reports express that three people were killed including a police officer (Constable Donay Phillips) who was disarmed and shot while responding to a complaint at the hospital.
Phillips was guarding a patient he had brought to New Somerset.
According to the police, Phillips (32) “succumbed to injuries sustained” after the shooter allegedly took his gun as per Alan Winde’s comment.
The names of the other two victims (ages 42 and 48) have not yet been released, but it’s believed they were killed in their beds.
However, a recent development in the case has indicated that the murderer is a former cop from Hopefield who had been dismissed over a decade ago, according to Western Cape Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General, Thembisile Patekile, as per IOL.
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