Cape Town – Onlookers have described how armed police officers arrested three suspects linked to the murder of rapper Kiernan AKA Forbes.
Reports indicate that three men were brought in for questioning after being arrested in Belhar, Western Cape. Two more men were arrested later.
Three males have been detained by police in relation to the murder of Kiernan “AKA” Forbes. At this point, the suspects have been brought in for questioning. The group was captured over the weekend in Belhar, Western Cape. pic.twitter.com/w1HUlKQDfU
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IOL reported that the arrests were captured on cellphone cameras by shoppers at the mall, but police did not confirm the arrests.
“There’s an ATM on a corner but it looked like they were trying to rob the ATM. There were undercover police officers on the scene,” a shopkeeper was quoted as saying.
“One of the officers was inside my store and was watching the suspects. They were just standing around the ATM when they were arrested. Police were shouting at them, one of the suspects had a gun on him,” said the shopkeeper. He said the whole incident lasted about 30 minutes, and no shots were fired.”
According to TimesLIVE, the footage of AKA’s shooting outside Wish restaurant in Durban that was leaked on social media was not as clear as the one in the police’s possession.
“The CCTV footage of the shooting that was leaked onto social media was blurry compared to the original downloaded footage from Wish that police had in their possession. In the original footage the cops were able to zoom in quite significantly,” a source was quoted as saying.
A source close to the investigation said a team of more than 10 detectives had been assigned to investigate the case, the report said.
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