Top cop shoots self in head

A SENIOR police officer in Bulawayo yesterday allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in his office at Westgate Police Station.

Chief Inspector Edgar Dube (50), the Officer-in-Charge of the Police Protection Unit at Westgate, used a service pistol to shoot himself at around 7AM.

According to local media, there was no suicide note but a Bible, opened to Romans Chapter Two, was found beside his body in his blood spattered office.

The first verse reads: "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things."

Sources close to the matter said he was found with a gun in his hand and a gunshot wound under his right ear and above his left eye.

National police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba confirmed the incident.