The provincial spokesperson of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks), Ndivhuwo Mulamu, says Samuels and his accomplices handed themselves over at the Eldorado SAPS, accompanied by their family members, earlier this week on Monday 4 May 2020. 

She says they were immediately charged for the murder of the 40-year-old police officer, Sergeant Lydia Moamohe. Mulamu says his alleged accomplices' cases were withdrawn. Samuels is facing charges of murder, attempted murder and hijacking. He will reappear in the same court on 13 May 2020 for formal bail application and further investigation.

OFM News previously reported that Moamohe was shot and killed while on her way to work with two other officers on the evening of 21 April 2020. It is alleged that Moamohe and the two officers witnessed a person being forced into the boot of a car. While reversing to inspect what was ensuing, the suspects shot indiscriminately towards the police vehicle and fled the scene in a VW Golf. After the random shooting, Sergeant Moamohe's colleagues realised that she was seriously wounded and immediately rushed her to the nearby hospital where she succumbed to the gunshot wounds.

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