Rehoboth girl shoots herself at Keetmanshoop

A 19-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide in her boyfriend’s room at Keetmanshoop on Wednesday by shooting herself with a pistol in the stomach. She was identified as Kenorita Beukes from Rehoboth. The suicide took place at 12:55 in a flat next to the prison canteen at Keetmanshoop. Chief Inspector Niikodemus Nampala said Beukes was declared dead on arrival at the local State hospital. Nampala said Beukes had travelled from Rehoboth to visit her boyfriend for his birthday on Wednesday. During the birthday party, a friend of Beukes’s boyfriend allegedly put his pistol in a drawer next to the bed. “Beukes allegedly managed to see the weapon and sneaked inside, wrote a suicide note and then shot herself with the weapon,” Nampala told Nampa. He said he could not disclose the content of the suicide note at this stage. He said the gun owner has not been charged with negligent handling of a firearm, as he had placed it in a drawer and closed it. “We however subjected the boyfriend and the gun owner to a gunshot residue test so that we can factually determine whether it was indeed a suicide. We are waiting for the test results to come back and then we’ll see how to proceed with the case,” Nampala said. KEETMANSHOOP NAMPA