A fourth person has been arrested in connection with at least one of several drive-by shootings in Durban’s Chatsworth suburb, police said on Tuesday.
The arrest came hours after three others appeared at the Chatsworth Magistrate’s Court on Monday for murder.
Superintendent Muzi Mngomezulu said Durban’s Organised Crime Unit arrested the fourth person in Malvern late on Monday night.
The other three — taxi boss Duncan Arumugam (33) Pravendran Perumal (26) and Brandon Govender (27) — appeared at court and were remanded in custody until July 22 for a formal bail hearing.
The court ordered that the bail hearing be held in the Durban Regional Court. The three are accused of shooting 33-year-old Calvin Naidoo on April 10 in the Crossmoor suburb of Durban’s Chatsworth area.
Naidoo was travelling toward Crossmoor Drive with three passengers when unidentified gunmen fired six shots at his Chrysler.
Police said the latest suspect would face the same charges. Naidoo died almost instantly, after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head.
Arumugam has been at the centre of what is believed to be a ongoing feud that has left 17 people dead and 14 injured over about three years in a spate of least 15 drive-by shootings.
The taxi boss’s 26-year-old brother Gerald Arumugam, a cousin, and his five-year-old son Dredin-Lee were killed in two of those shootings. Gerald was killed in June, his wife’s cousin Donovan Pillay died in February after being ambushed, while his son was killed in 2005. – Sapa