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Original Post Date: 2008-10-30 Time: 19:00:08 Posted By: Jan
By Nomangezi Mbiza
Relatives of a Philippi West resident shot and killed by police pursuing a group of suspected armed robbers, say police admitted to them that they had mistaken him for one of the robbers.
Nyanga police spokesperson Captain Ntomboxolo Sitshitshi said police were chasing a delivery vehicle that was hijacked in Khayelitsha and were searching for the suspects in Philippi West when they accidentally shot Hlumisa Mzukwa.
The 29-year-old died inside his shack on Wednesday.
| ‘Before I could get back to bed I heard a gun shot …’ |
Mzukwa worked as a security guard and was originally from the Eastern Cape.
His relatives told the Cape Argus that police officers on the scene told them that Mzukwa was accidentally shot because they mistook him for an armed robber.
According to his brother in-law, Banele Phangalele, who lives in a neighbouring shack, Mzukwa had woken up and had borrowed a cellphone charger from him. Phangalele said he was still asleep when Mzukwa knocked on his door.
After giving him the charger, he was about to go back to sleep.
“Before I could get back to bed I heard a gun shot and ran outside to see what is going on,” said a visibly traumatised Phangalele.
| ‘He was lying on the floor crying’ |
He said that he then saw police “all over the place”.
They told him they were chasing robbery suspects and thought Mzukwa was one of them. When he went to look for Mzukwa, he found him lying inside his shack.
“He was lying on the floor crying,” said Phangalele.
Mzukwa later died on the scene.
Sitshitshi said he was shot once in his right upper arm.
Phangalele said he was still “confused and traumatised” by the incident.
“I don’t understand why, he was in my room just a few minutes earlier and now he is dead,” he said.
“How can police shoot him in front of his own home, he is not a criminal?”.
Another relative, Thandile Ntsuku, said the family was “shocked” by what had happened and Mzukwa’s wife, Nomxolisi Mzukwa, had to be rushed to hospital.
“She (the wife) was not thinking straight and she looked like she was losing her mind,” said Ntsuku.
“She was just sitting there saying nothing … we had to take her to the hospital.”
Neighbour Thandiswa Ntshoko, meanwhile, said: “I was inside my shack when I heard a gun shot and I didn’t go out because I was scared.
“Police are supposed to protect us and not shoot at us,” she said.
A senior police officer said the man was killed while one of the officers chasing the suspects dropped his gun which fired automatically.
A source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the man was believed to have been killed after an officer in pursuit of the suspects tripped during the chase.