AKA was assassinated – Police release new evidence

Police have confirmed the murder of rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes was an assassination.

In a television interview, KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi said from the evidence they collected, they had no doubt the murder was a hit.

Police have confirmed the murder of rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes was an assassination.

In a television interview, KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi said from the evidence they collected, they had no doubt the murder was a hit.

Forbes, 35, was shot dead with his friend, chef Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane, on Florida Road in Durban on Friday night.

Mkhwanazi said from what they had seen, two suspects had walked across the street. He said one gunman stood on the side of the road while the other walked around a parked car, went up to AKA from behind and shot him in the ear.

“He did not shoot the friend that was with him, but he shot AKA twice, and he ran away. The other criminal engaged and fired a couple of shots, and one of his bullets managed to strike Motsoane, and he died.

“We know the aim was to first kill AKA, and the second one could have killed any other person who was in the way. The distance where the second suspect was when he engaged that shot and the number of people in the firing line, the bullet could have hit anyone who was there. Unfortunately, it got him [Motsoane],” said Mkhwanazi.

Mkhwanazi said they believed the second suspect was firing to make sure no-one responded to the initial hit on AKA.

Without revealing much, Mkhwanazi said their investigation would entail checking everyone who was in contact with the AKA and Motsoane before they visited and left Wish on Florida restaurant.

He said they were also analysing the data on any other person who gathered immediately after the shooting.

He said that would help read the behaviour of all those who were at the crime scene to get an idea of whether the organisers of the hit were among the spectators after the shooting.