An off-duty cop stationed at Delft Police Station was stabbed to death in an apparent robbery close to his home in Kleinvlei Sunday morning.
Messages of condolences have poured in for the 28-year-old police constable while his colleagues have launched a manhunt for his two killers.
Leyden Finger was stabbed twice while he and a friend were walking home from a tuckshop in Albert Philander Street, in the Conifers, Eerste River, at 2.30am.
According to police, Leyden and his friend were approached by two suspects who had attempted to rob them, but
he tried to fight them off.
He was stabbed twice in his torso and died of his wounds in the street.
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It is believed his friend ran off and the suspects robbed the dead officer.
Eerste River Community Policing Forum chairperson, Julian Unthank, says the community is saddened and angered by the death of the officer.
“These gangsters do not care who they hurt anymore. If it is not our innocent women and children being murdered in these senseless killings, then it’s an officer, here to protect and serve the very community where the killers live, and where they wish to safely raise their own families in,” Unthank said yesterday.
Police spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Andrè Traut, said the suspects are still at large.
“The 28-year-old constable stationed at Delft Police Station was leaving a shop in the area accompanied by a friend when he was stabbed to death during an apparent robbery by two unknown suspects who are yet to be arrested,” Traut said.