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An Eastern Cape police officer has died.
An off-duty police officer was shot and killed in his car in Bethelsdorp, Port Elizabeth, on Saturday night.
According to police spokesman Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana, at approximately 11:15 p.m. Bethelsdorp police officers responded to a report of a shooting on Wallflower Street at extension 33.
“Upon arrival, the body of Sergeant De Porres Leanard Frieslaar, 37, was found inside his Suzuki Celerio with a gunshot wound to the head.”
The motive for the shooting had yet to be established and the Hawks were investigating the case.
Eastern Cape Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga condemned the murder and expressed her condolences to Frieslaar’s family, friends and colleagues.
The police have appealed to anyone with information on the whereabouts of the attackers to send information about the My SAPS application or to contact the Crime Stop number 08600 10111. The police said that all information received will be processed with the strictest confidentiality.
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