/ 17 October 1999

ARREST IN MANDELA PARK KILLINGS

A SUSPECT has been arrested in Johannesburg in connection with the shooting of 13 people in Greenfields and Mandela Park. The 35-year-old man is to be charged with the murder of seven people in Mandela Park on July 19. He is also linked to the shooting of four people and injuring of another three at Mandela Park on September 28, and the killing of two mourners at a funeral in the area earlier this year. The man is expected to appear in the Alberton Magistrate’s Court on Monday.