Overview
- Officers responded Tuesday morning to a home in Jimmy Jones Village, Malamulele, where they found the infant deceased.
- Emergency medical services certified the death at the scene, and preliminary police findings noted head and facial injuries.
- Police opened a murder case, launched a manhunt, and arrested the 18-year-old suspect later that evening at about 10pm.
- The suspect is expected to appear in the Malamulele Magistrate’s Court on Thursday as detectives continue forensic follow-up.
- Limpopo provincial police commissioner Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe condemned the killing and praised the swift investigative work.