Police spent hours combing mountainous terrain in KZN, looking for the gun used to kill a King Edward VIII Hospital HR officer.
|||Durban - Police spent hours on Friday combing mountainous terrain and cemeteries in northern KwaZulu-Natal, looking for the gun that was used to kill a King Edward VIII Hospital senior human resources officer.
The alleged gunman, Khule-kani Ntuli, was arrested on Tuesday at a flat in Hillbrow by the provincial police tracking team and Umbilo detectives.
He accompanied police to his home town in Nkandla to point out where he had stashed the alleged murder weapon.
A police source said Ntuli had fled to Nkandla after the shooting. He went to his sister’s home in Johannesburg - where he had been hiding out - a few days later.
Police failed to recover the weapon.
Ntuli was expected to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court today on charges of intimidation and pointing of a firearm.
He appeared in court on Friday on the murder charge.
Ntuli has been on the run since February 28, when senior human resources officer Sipho Mfayela, 54, was shot dead at the hospital.
Police issued a warrant for Ntuli’s arrest and in April offered a R15 000 reward for information that would lead to his arrest.
They received information about a week ago that Ntuli had been hiding out at his sister’s flat in Hillbrow.
It is believed the shooting was sparked by Ntuli’s dismissal from the hospital.
Police spokesman, Captain Thulani Zwane, said Ntuli allegedly confronted Mfayela in his office after he had been told the results of his misconduct disciplinary appeal.
Mfayela was shot twice in the chest. He died at the scene.
At the time witnesses told police they had seen Ntuli driving off in his Toyota Corolla.
A case of murder was opened at the Umbilo police station.
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