Police deny shooting the deceased on the head, despite post mortem results showing he was shot twice at close range.
“The now deceased accused was never shot on the head. According to the post mortem held by the police the cause of death was given as ‘hypovolemic shock due to ruptured liver due to a gunshot wound’,” said Lovemore Nxumalo, the acting officer-in-charge at CID Vehicle Theft Squad in Harare in response to Dorothy Chiwaridzo’s fight to bring finality to the circumstances that led to her son Tendai Batsirai Dzigarwi’s death in March this year.
He was arrested and detained on accusations of stealing a vehicle before the cops shot him. They did not inform Chiwaridzo of her son’s death and she heard it through the rumour mill. They then conducted a pauper’s burial after she refused to bury Tendai in the absence of a clear explanation of how he died.
Police claimed that government pathologist Gabriel Aguero-Gonzalez had concluded that Tendai died of gunshots as he fled Southerton Police Station.
Chiwaridzo wants the High Court to force an inquest into her son’s death in a case in which Nxumalo, Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri, Co-Home Affairs Ministers Theresa Makone and Kembo Mohadi and the Chief Magistrate are respondents.
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