Off-duty cop 'shot pedestrians'
2007-11-12 22:45
Nelspruit - A Mpumalanga police constable handed himself over to police after two pedestrians who failed to get out of the way of his bakkie were shot and injured.
The 28-year-old constable who works at the Nelspruit police station was off duty when the pedestrians were shot in Nyongane village near Hazyview on Saturday.
"We received a call that a man was shooting people in the street and when we arrived on the scene we found out it was a cop involved in the shooting," said Constable Mpho Koli on Monday.
The pedestrians, Oupa Maphanga, 49, and his friend Psycho Ngoma, 30, were left unconscious on the street.
Maphanga was shot in the forehead and Ngoma in his genitals. Both men were taken to the local hospital and Maphanga was later transferred to a hospital in Pretoria.
The policeman was apparently travelling in his private bakkie with his brother when the incident happened.
"We cannot disclose whether he was driving under the influence of liquor or not because that is part of our investigation," said Koli.
The cop is expected to appear in the Hazyview Magistrate's Court on Tuesday on a charge of attempted murder.