Johannesburg Central Police arrested a 47-year-old male for murder at corner Albert and Von Weilligh Street on 22November 2013 at 5pm.
It is alleged that suspect stabbed a 50-year-old male with a knife at the above mention street names. Police were busy with their routine crime prevention duties when they receive a complaint. They rushed to the scene and found suspect standing next to a restaurant with his clothes covered in blood.
Deceased was stabbed once in the upper body and was declared dead on the scene by the paramedics. Suspect was arrested and knife used in the commission of crime recovered from him. The motive for the murder is not yet known and investigations are continuing.
Suspect appeared at the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court yesterday.