4 Killed in Pretoria Shooting, Business Owner Shoots Wife and Employees Before Committing Suicide

• Police confirmed that four people were killed following two separate shootings in Pretoria
• Police first reported to a shooting at a residential address where they found a woman already dead
• A business owner is alleged to have shot dead three people before he eventually killed himself

The community of Pretoria are still coming to terms with the devastating shooting which claimed the lives of four people.

The South African Police Service is investigating a triple murder and suicide following two separate shootings in the Moot, Pretoria.

It’s alleged that a Pretoria business owner shot dead three people before turning the gun on himself.

Four killed in shooting spree

According to police, they first were called out to a residential complex in Rietfontein, where they found a 45-year-old woman with gunshot wounds to the head.

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Medical personnel tried to assist, but the woman was declared dead at the scene.

Police were then alerted to a second shooting at a supermarket and takeaway shop in Gezina, where they found another three found three people with fatal gunshot wounds.

Business owner responsible for mass shootings

According to preliminary investigations, police understand that the 47-year-old supermarket owner argued with his employees after opening the shop in the morning.

He then went home, where he retrieved a pistol before fatally shooting his wife. He then returned to the supermarket, where he shot two of his employees. The victims were a male and a female.

It’s believed that two other employees escaped unharmed. The owner is then said to have turned the firearm on himself and committed suicide. Police recovered a 9mm pistol at the scene of the crime.

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The shooting follows in the wake of numerous mass shootings in the country.

Seven killed in Orange Farm shooting

In a similar incident, a tavern owner killed seven people in Orange Grove before turning the gun on himself.

The incident happened in the Mokokotlong informal settlement after an argument is said to have broken out.

Briefly News reported that a three-year-old child was also among the victims of the deadly shooting.

Source: Briefly News