Killer cop was a monster to his slain former wife
The cop who shot and killed his pregnant ex-wife had allegedly been threatening her for months before ultimately gunning her down in full view of staff and patients at Brits Hospital in North West.
This according to the family of Ntombizodwa Khumalo, 35, , who died in a hail of bullets last week.
Khumalo, who was eight months pregnant, was shot just after 7pm, minutes before her shift started.
She worked as a desk operator.
Her ex-husband Sgt Tebogo Mpete, a police officer at the Silverton rapid rail, handed himself over to police after allegedly calling a member of the family, informing them of what he had done.
Khumalo’s uncle, Jeffrey, who spoke to Sowetan on the sidelines of a memorial service that was held at the Brits White Hall, said his niece had left her marriage and filed for divorce because of abuse.
He said Mpete and Khumalo got married in 2016, and five years into the marriage, Khumalo left their Ga-Rankuwa, North of Pretoria, home when the abuse worsened.
“He used to beat her up and she kept a lot of those pictures, where you can see her bruises. She had bruises all over her body.
“The family tried to intervene many times. On about six occasions after he had beaten her up, my brother tried to sit him down and talk to him. But he was very arrogant,” Jeffrey said.
“So she gathered the strength and came back home in Brits. We got her own stand and she started afresh.”
He said Khumalo filed for divorce in 2021, which led to her receiving threats allegedly from Mpete.
“She had three court orders against him but he would violate them.”
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