Primrose police arrested a suspect on charges of business robbery, possession of an unlicensed firearm and live ammunition and attempted murder in the Marathon informal settlement, recently.<\/p>\n
This was after the police responded to a complaint of business robbery.<\/p>
Upon their arrival on the scene, police were informed, by the business owner, that he had been robbed by four men.<\/p>\n
The victim described what the suspects were wearing and that they were on foot.<\/p>
Police officers patrolled the area and spotted the suspects on a nearby street corner.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspects saw the police vehicle and ran in different directions,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose SAPS.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice chased the suspects with the help of community members and one of the suspects locked himself in a mobile toilet.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was difficult for the police to open the toilet as it was locked and they had to request more manpower.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspect then came out of the toilet and began shooting randomly,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the bullets hit a man in the leg.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the suspect realised this, he started running again, throwing the firearm into a pile of rubbish before entering an open shack.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maome said that a woman came out and told the officers a stranger had entered her shack<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice surrounded the shack and instructed the man to come out which he did, crawling and begging police not to shoot him.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was arrested and detained at the Primrose Police Station.<\/p>\n
Station commander Col Albertina Vesi thanked the Marathon community for helping the police bring the suspect to book.<\/p>\n
He will appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court soon.<\/p>\n
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