ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Monday 11.30am
JOHNNY Jooste, suspected of killing his wife, two daughters and four relatives on a farm in the Koue Bokkeveld in the Western Cape on Sunday morning, has been arrested by police.
Boland police spokesman Captain Anton de Kock told ZA*NOW
that Jooste, 35, handed himself over to police at a school in the area at around 10.45am on Monday morning.
According to police Jooste did not resist arrest.
“He gave himself up to police willingly and police recovered the firearm,” said De Kock. Jooste has now “been removed from the community” and will appear in the Ceres Magistrate’s Court within 48 hours. Earlier police launched a massive manhunt for 35-year-old Jooste, who allegedly shot dead his wife, two daughters and four relatives on a farm in the Koue Bokkeveld in the Western Cape on Sunday morning.
About thirty policemen, trackers and dogs suspended the search late on Sunday night.
Jooste fled into the mountains on the farm Oumuur, where he was formerly employed, after allegedly killing his wife Elmien and his two children, Sanyay, 3, and Blake, 6, on Sunday morning. Jooste also allegedly shot dead his wife’s three sisters, Sophia Swarts, Janetta Jacobs and Cornelia Visagie. Swarts’ husband, Barend was also killed. All the victims were shot execution-style with a single shot to the head.
Jooste’s 13-year-old daughter was the only person of his immediate family to survive the shooting.
According to Louis Milne, the owner of Oumuur, Jooste was angry because he felt that the family were interfering in his marriage.