Two suspects arrested for the murder of Ntuzuma teacher

Media Statement
South African Police Service
Office of the Provincial Commissioner KwaZulu-Natal

DURBAN - Police detectives attached to the Provincial Serious and Violent Crimes unit have arrested two suspects who have been positively linked with the murder of a 46-year-old teacher who was shot and killed inside Phikiswayo Primary School at Richmond Farm in Ntuzuma on the morning of 29 July 2024.

On that day, a man entered the school premises and requested to see the woman. The suspect went straight to the victim and shot her multiple times and fled from the scene. She was declared dead at the scene and after police established she could have been assassinated because she was a witness on a matter concerning an inmate at the Westville prison, the matter was handed over to the Provincial Serious and Violent Crimes unit.

Police have thus far managed to connect the inmate as the mastermind for the murder, and two other people; the actual shooter and the one who played the role of a spotter, were arrested on Thursday, 24 October 2024. Investigations continued and on Friday, 25 October 2024, a firearm believed to have been used to kill the teacher was found at the residential premises of the suspected trigger puller. The jacket which he was wearing during the commission of the crime was also found. Preliminary investigations have revealed that the firearm was robbed from its licensed owner during a robbery at Sherwood in Sydenham in April 2023.

The suspects, aged 36 and 41 years old, will appear in the Ntuzuma Magistrate's Court on Monday, 28 October 2024 on charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The already incarcerated suspect will also be charged accordingly and will appear before court in due course.

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