Eugene Dhlamini
Court reporter
A Policeman in the city of Bulawayo is facing charges of murder after shooting to death a suspect.
The policeman is set to go on trial on the 23rd of March 2023.
The deceased Thembani Dube aged 23 was shot dead by a policeman as he resisted arrest on allegations of domestic violence.
The state’s case says that the police hunted down the deceased Dube who lived in Nkulumane 12 and found him in Pumula South.
Dube on noticing the police fled and an armed police officer gunned him down.
They rushed him to Mpilo Hospital where he died upon admission and the post mortem says he died due to Asphyxia hypoxia, airway passages blood, facial injuries and neck to face gun shot.