Police deny arresting suspect in CEO shooting
Goitsemodimo Kaelo | Thursday November 5, 2015 15:40
The BPS spokesperson senior superintendent Dipheko Motube told Mmegi that people, especially the media have been interfering with police investigations on the matter. “We have never had any suspect.
People have been interfering with investigations. The media has been distorting information writing what they want. We have never said we arrested a suspect in connection to the matter,” said Motube.
Motube said the alleged killer is still at large and police investigations are ongoing. He said as they gather intelligence, under normal circumstances it would give them leads, which they have to follow. He explained the leads have taken the investigating officers from one place to another, and from one person to another.
“But if we ask someone it does not mean he is our suspect. We have been to many people and places. But we can’t talk about those people. We have interviewed many people but we can’t say they are our suspects, including the 31-year-old gentleman we were with at Game City. I can’t tell you where he is right now and what we did with him, it is unnecessary.”
This is contrary to what the police told the nation last month. Late October the police released a statement saying:
“As has already been widely reported elsewhere, this is to further confirm that a man suspected in the murder of the Fairground Holdings CEO, Mr Michael Montshiwa was taken into custody last night following a police operation. Further details will be provided when they become officially available.”
Motube however insists that the police never released that statement.
Montshiwa was allegedly shot at close range at his home in Block 6 on October 18, 2015. Since then, the police have been looking for the suspect. It was reported recently that the police arrested a 31-year-old in connection to the murder at Game City Mall fitting the descriptions of the alleged shooter whom the neighbours described as light-skinned man of medium size height.