GEORGE NEWS - Two suspects in their 30s appeared in the George Magistrate's Court on Friday 20 March after two murders and a business robbery were linked through a firearm.
The murders occurred in Thembalethu, and Cape Town, and the robbery in the George CBD.
According to Southern Cape police spokesperson, Capt Malcolm Pojie, ballistic tests indicate that the same firearm was used in all three incidents.
On 13 May 2019, Thando Mbambo (36) was gunned down in Tabata Street, Zone 9 and robbed of his firearm. At that stage eyewitnesses said that three men were involved in the shooting.
The following night, 14 May, an armed robbery was reported at Watson's Butchery in Cradock Street, when two men were allegedly robbed by three suspects at the office across the road from the butchery.
The victims, who had to deliver cash to the office's safe, were threatened with a firearm before they were robbed of two bags of money.
Shots were fired and the suspects fled on foot. No one was injured during the incident.
A few days later, on Sunday 19 May, well-known Cape Town attorney David Mbazwana (37) was shot dead at a spaza shop in Khayelitsha.
David Mbazwana was shot and killed in Cape Town shortly after a murder and an armed robbery in George. Photo: Facebook/Legal Practitioners SA
After Mbazwana's murder, five suspects were arrested in Cape Town. It is believed that two of them are linked to the incidents that took place in George, as the firearm that was stolen from Mbambo in Thembalethu was allegedly used during the armed robbery in Cradock Street and also during Mbazwana's murder.
All the suspects are remanded in custody at the Pollsmoor correctional facility in Cape Town and are scheduled to appear in the Cape Town High Court in connection with the Cape Town Murder case on 17 April.
According to Pojie the names of the accused are being withheld at this stage. "There are processes that are part of this sensitive investigation that still need to be completed," he said.
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