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in which he killed his brother Tichafunga on Sunday morning as part of their investigations.
Police spokesperson Inspector James Sabau, said it was part of the investigations because police have to establish exactly what happened prior and during the shooting.

The police, he said, had only taken him to the house for indications to help in their investigations.
Neighbours who talked to The Herald said the police brought Tendai and made him demonstrate what had happened on the day of the shooting.
“We were seeing it from a distance but they were all over his yard with him showing them how he acted,” said one of the neighbours.
Contrary to earlier statements that Tichafunga was at Tendai’s house when he (Tendai) returned from Rusape to find his parking space occupied, one neighbour said

Tichafunga had parked the vehicle and left for his house.
“Tendai followed him to his house and came with him bare footed. This was despite Tichafunga’s indications that he had left the car keys at Tendai’s house and there was their younger brother too who could just move the car,” said the man.
He said he did not believe the parking space was the real borne of contention, but something else was behind the matter.

“There was an incident in which Tendai is alleged to have brought home a mysterious flower from Rusape and Tichafunga had raised concern about it.
“Tendai is said to have threatened to axe Tichafunga who later got involved in a car accident involving Tendai’s kombi after the altercation,” said the neighbour.
He said there had always been suspicion surrounding the relationship of the two brothers.
Tendai for whom Tichafunga worked for was well up while the young brother was leading just an ordinary life.

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Meanwhile, close relatives revealed that the mother of the now deceased has not been eating since the shooting took place.
“She is still in a state of shock and is finding it hard to believe that her son is dead.
“This has adversely affected her to an extent that we have been trying to force her to eat but she is refusing,” he said.

A close friend of the Mungororos said the family was still waiting for the post-mortem and will only start burial arrangements after that.  
Tendai shot and killed his brother Tichafunga on Sunday morning.
He later surrendered himself to police.

Meanwhile, in Chinhoyi a 17-year-old Chinhoyi teenager allegedly struck a neighbour to death with a hoe handle over US$5 last week.
The incident has led to the father reuniting with his long lost son.
After reading the story in The Herald last week, the father, Mr Leonard Mukondo, who last saw Munyaradzi Keto when he was a two-month-old baby, immediately

knew that it was his son. Munyaradzi has since appeared before Chinhoyi magistrate Mr Jerry Singandu for bail hearing and was released in the custody of his aunt who lives in Kariba toApril 30.
He is facing murder charges.
Mr Mukondo was separated from the boy’s mother sometime in 1995 after a misunderstanding over the pregnancy with his aunt.

The Herald caught up with Mr Mukondo yesterday and he confirmed that Munyaradzi was indeed his son.
He said he had been looking for him since when he separated with the boy’s mother.
“Things happened and she got pregnant but my aunt whom I was living with then said it was not possible for me to live with her since I was still at school and very young,” said Mr Mukondo.

“I have been looking for him ever since but the only information I had was that she (the boy’s mother) was living in Karoi.”
However, it has since turned out that she has moved to Sadoma in Chinhoyi where the tragic incident occurred.
They were living in Glen View when the mother of his son fell pregnant and she left for Karoi.
However, tragedy struck when Munyaradzi, who is using the mother’s surname, struck a neighbour to death with a hoe after being asked to pay back the US$5 he owed the victim.

Mr Mukondo said although the unification comes under tragic circumstances, it was a good development.