Teen found shot dead day after 'overnight visit'
Jabulile told mom she was leaving with her uncle
Alexandra teenager Jabulile Nkosi left her home on Saturday night after she told her mother that her uncle had arrived to pick her up for an overnight visit.
Her mother responded by saying Jabulile should return to their Tsutsumani Village home the following day by 8.30am. But when she left it was the last time they saw the 18-year-old alive.
Jabulile’s body was found at the corner of Vasco Da Gama Street and East Bank Avenue early on Sunday. She had been shot three times.
The incident has left her former schoolmates at Eastbank High School, who protested outside the police station yesterday, heartbroken.
As the number of protesting pupils increased, more police arrived to monitor the situation.
“She was a kind person and loved people. We feel unsafe after what happened to her. The entire community of Alexandra should be joining us in protest over what happened to her,” said pupil Imani Radebe.
Detailing the drama that unfolded at the weekend, Jabulile’s mother Phumelelo Nkosi said she spent the whole day with her daughter on Saturday.
When Jabulile left at night, Nkosi reminded her to be back home by 8.30am the next day.
She could not get hold of her on the phone when she did not show up in the morning.
Nkosi said her other child, nineyear-old son Mpendulo, went out to play next to Jukskei River and found Jabulile’s handbag and brought it home.
“I opened the bag and found Jabulile’s
smart ID card. There was also a cutex [nail polish] that was broken. “I knew something was wrong.
“I then waited a bit and when my brother got home, he told me that a body of a girl had been found somewhere in the township. He suggested we go to the police station,” Nkosi said.
At the police station, she gave a description of what Jabulile was wearing and it fitted that of the body found by the police.
Police then requested she comes back the next day so that they could take her to the mortuary in Hillbrow.
Nkosi positively identified her daughter.
One bullet wound was in her forehead.