Pretoria police have again been accused of shooting and killing an innocent man, according to a newspaper report.According to The Sowetan, the family of Kgothatso Ndobe (21) say he had been polishing his shoes when the police arrived and said they wanted to question him and his friend, Xolani Bhoya.
Ndobe apparently panicked and ran away. A trainee officer then shot him in the head.
The trainee officer allegedly fled the scene after he realised what he had done.
Bhoya says the reason Ndobe ran away was because he had been smoking dagga when the police arrived.
Eye-witnesses say a senior officer on scene, Inspector Skosana, refused to call an ambulance or transport Ndobe to hospital.
Later still, officers at the Atteridgeville police station apparently told Bhoya that he could not open a case because the person who was supposed to open it was dead.
The latest shooting comes after Pretoria police shot at the unarmed occupants of a VW Golf last weekend after they mistook the occupants for robbers. A fortnight before that Pretoria police shot and killed Olga Kekana (29) after mistaking her and her companions for hijackers.
- TimesLive
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