“To set the record explicitly clear, on the said day, the victim was with a group of friends and one of them, an 18-year-old boy, had a firearm in his possession.”
A police officer's gun was used to kill a Barbeton teenager, but the police say it was not the officer who pulled the trigger.Mpumalanga police have arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of a Barberton youth amid ongoing community protests in the town.
Brigadier Leonard Hlathi said since the youth's shooting, local police had been the subject of a revolt from community members who had accused them of killing the youngster.
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