Thursday, June 25, 2015

Two deceased suspects linked to 16 counts of serious crimes

Mbasa Gqokoma
25 June 2015

Two armed robbers who were fatally shot on Sunday have been linked through fingerprints to at a combined 16 other crimes.

The two suspects were killed during a shootout with police when the police attempted to arrest them while they were robbing a house.

Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo said, we have linked the two deceased suspects to 16 counts of other serious crimes which include the arm robbery cases, possession of suspected property to be stolen, and one attempted murder case.

“One of those two suspects has been linked to 13 of those cases, 9 of which were in awaiting trial and other 4 was cases which they linked to finger prints and the 2nd deceased suspect has been linked to three cases all of which he was in awaiting trial” Naidoo added.

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