Published on April 04, 2006, SABC News

Murderous cop shot dead by police

A senior police officer has killed eight people after a shooting rampage in the West Rand last night. His killing spree led to the death of three women, a one-year-old baby and four police officers.

Another women was critically injured during the crime spree, which occurred in Tarlton and at the police detectives academy at the police station in Kagiso. She is being treated at a hospital.

Police say the detective firstly killed the three women and the baby. He then went to his police station in Kagiso, a township just west of Johannesburg, where he pumped bullets into four of his colleagues.

The Kagiso-based police officer was shot dead by police in Sebokeng early this morning after an extensive manhunt.

Published on April 04, 2006, SABC News

Woman throws light on Kagiso killings

A 21-year-old woman has shed some light on a shooting spree by a policeman that left four police officers and six other people dead on the West Rand on Monday night.

Police spokesperson Senior-Superintendent Mary Martins-Engelbrecht said a woman injured in the shooting gave detectives a statement on Tuesday at Leratong hospital.

Martins-Engelbrecht declined to expand on what the statement contained.

However, she did confirm that Masabata Moobi, 21, had told police that the killer cop, Superintendent Chippa Mateane, 42, had been romantically linked to one of the women killed, Matshidiso Selena Mosia, 38.

Mosia was also the mother and grandmother of two other victims. They were Lerato Mosia, 24, and Lebogang Mosia, two.

Published on April 04, 2006, MWEB News

'Come and help'

Johannesburg - "Come and help, Chippa has slaughtered everyone like animals," was the frantic call John Amanda got from a top cop's girlfriend on Monday night.

He said on Tuesday that Poppy Mosia had called him shortly after being shot by superintendent Chippa Mateane, 44, her lover of many years.

She was one of eight people who died when the "star policeman" went on the rampage on the West Rand. Two others were seriously wounded.

A pedestrian also died, after being hit by a police car in pursuit of Mateane, bringing the death toll to 10.