French fugitive Philippe Meniere shot his wife Agnes Jardel dead and then turned the gun on himself. He was wounded and subsequently killed in a shootout with police
The couple was on the run from police after they killed a policeman and injured another in Sutherland.
“As police approached, the man shot his wife twice in the head and then shot himself in the temple,” Hawks spokesman McIntosh Polela said.
“The man was injured but not dead... there was a shootout and the police shot the man in his stomach and his legs and he died.”
Meniere, 60, and Jardel, 55, were on the run for six days following the shooting of Constable Jacob Boleme on January 14 at the farmhouse they occupied near Sutherland. The farm’s owner called the police after he had tried unsuccessfully to evict the couple from his house.
Update on French fugitive's death in Sutherland
French fugitive Philippe Meniere shot his wife Agnes Jardel dead and then turned the gun on himself. He was wounded and subsequently killed in a shootout with police
The couple was on the run from police after they killed a policeman and injured another in Sutherland.
“As police approached, the man shot his wife twice in the head and then shot himself in the temple,” Hawks spokesman McIntosh Polela said.
“The man was injured but not dead... there was a shootout and the police shot the man in his stomach and his legs and he died.”
Meniere, 60, and Jardel, 55, were on the run for six days following the shooting of Constable Jacob Boleme on January 14 at the farmhouse they occupied near Sutherland. The farm’s owner called the police after he had tried unsuccessfully to evict the couple from his house.
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