A POLICE reservist shot and wounded himself on Saturday morning after apparently shooting dead his girlfriend in Oudtshoorn’s Bongolethu suburb, police said on Monday. Inspector Elgin Antonie said the man, who cannot be named, reported for duty at the Bongolethu police station on Saturday morning and booked out a patrol vehicle. He drove to another police station where he booked out a firearm. The man later drove to a spaza shop in the suburb where he confronted an estranged girlfriend who was employed there. Antonie said the reservist allegedly shot the woman, Moira Wagenaar twice in the head. She died instantly. He subsequently shot himself but survived and was taken to a local hospital in a ”very serious” condition. The reservist was later transferred to a hospital in nearby George. The couple had one child. It was not known what triggered the tragedy, Antonie said. – Sapa
Saturday February 23, 2002