Cape Town cop killed while responding to domestic violence complaint

Philippi East police constable Amanda Ladlokova was killed while she and a colleague were trying to help in a domestic violence complaint, the Athlone Magistrate's Court heard on Friday.
"The first suspect is accused of making sure they were dead," the prosecutor told
Magistrate Keith le Keur. Ladlokova's Facebook profile shows a fresh-faced young woman who loved music - including Zahara, Thandiswa Mazwai and Afropop - and doted on her family.

But after the shooting on November 22, there will be no more photographs of the constable who proudly checked in at the Philippi East police station, posed with a sweet faced toddler, and loved gospel music.
On Friday, one of her suspected shooters, Ashwin Kennedy, 19, appeared disoriented as he stood in the dock in a brown sweatshirt.
Two other suspects were yet to be arrested.
Kennedy, who faces a charge of murder and another of attempted murder, at first appeared unable to speak when Le Keur asked whether he would like a pro bono Legal Aid attorney, or if he would represent himself in court.
After Le Keur repeated the question several times, Kennedy located the microphone in front of him and simply mumbled, '"Legal Aid".
Domestic violence complaint
Occasionally he turned around towards the public gallery, apparently searching for a familiar face.
According to the case docket so far, Ludlokova and a colleague were called to Acacia Street in Philippi East to intervene in a domestic violence complaint.
While they were there, a woman ran up to them and asked if they could urgently help in a similar situation around the corner.
The officers said they would go as soon as they were finished with the first complaint.
When they reached the second house, the woman who summoned them there said she was standing at the door when three people suddenly shooting at the officers.
She got such a fright that she ran away and hid at the back of the house.
Another witness, peeping through her window, said she saw one person shooting, and two people searching the officers after they fell to the ground.
The court heard that another witness, who owns a car wash up the road, said she had seen the three earlier in the day sitting around at the business.
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