According to the Boksburg North SAPS spokesperson, Lieut Juanita Coetzer, 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.
While on the N12 highway West, just before the Rondebult bridge, the two men were pulled over by the EMPD after being suspicious of them.
“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 9mm and tried to disarm him.
Mokheseng said the driver of the Metro police vehicle noticed this and shot at him, fatally wounding the man.
The suspect succumbed to his wounds on the scene.
Benoni SAPS cluster spokesperson Lieut Nomsa Sekele said five men entered the Edgars this morning.
“One pointed a firearm at the manager and told everyone that it was a robbery,” said Sekele.
”The manager and staff were instructed to be calm.”
She said the men made off with seven bags of clothes and money.
Sekele said police suspect the robbers chased off in two vehicles,as two men, believed to be involved in the robbery, were pulled over on the N12.
A case of armed robbery has been opened and police are investigating.
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