5 suspects arrested for Sea Cow Lake murder
The Special Ops Team and the Greenwood Park SAPS Trio Crimes Unit conducted a thorough five-hour operation in the Sea Cow Lake informal settlement.
FIVE suspects, believed to be linked to a murder in the Sea Cow Lake area, have been arrested.
Marshall Security spokesperson Tyron Powell said the arrest came after the Marshall Security Emergency Dispatch Centre was alerted by community crime groups of a deceased male lying on Gumtree Road who appeared to have sustained gunshot wounds.
“Multiple Armed Response officers and members of our Special Ops Team arrived on the scene within minutes, where a 32-year-old foreign national was found with two gunshot wounds to the head and showed no signs of life. Paramedics arrived on the scene a short while later and declared the victim deceased. Our members cordoned off the crime scene and notified the Greenwood Park SAPS, who arrived on the scene a short while later,” said Powell.
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Powell said further investigations into the murder led members of the Special Ops Team and the Greenwood Park SAPS Trio Crimes Unit on a five-hour operation at a Sea Cow Lake informal settlement.
“A thorough five-hour operation finally resulted in the arrest of five suspects believed to be involved in the murder. Upon questioning, the suspects, all aged between 18 and 19, confessed to the murder of the foreign national, where they had shot and robbed him of R350. The suspects also confessed to numerous other robberies across the Sea Cow Lake area.
“An unlicensed firearm and 69 rounds of ammunition were recovered, as well as a vehicle that was taken during a hijacking in Cato Manor on Saturday evening, where a female motorist was also shot and killed,” he said.
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He said, four of the suspects – three men and a woman – will be charged individually for their respective offences, ranging from murder, being in possession of an unlicensed firearm, the unlawful possession of ammunition and being in possession of suspected stolen items.
He said one of the suspects is a matric learner at a local school in the Sea Cow Lake area, with the fifth suspect being released as investigations revealed that he had not been involved in the incident.
