Man’s body found outside Chikurubi police camp with gunshot on head
Bullet ripped through left side of head and exited through the right
By Staff Reporter
A man’s body was found in a car outside Chikurubi Police Camp with gunshots on his head.
In a statement, police spokesperson for Harare province Inspector Luckmore Chakanza confirmed the incident.
According to Chakanza, the body was first discovered on 9 August 2025 by officers from the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services who went on to report the matter to the police.
The car, Chakanza said, had been at the scene since 7 August and was parked by the roadsid outside Chikurubi Maximum Prison along the road which leads to Lafarge.
The car is a blue Toyota Passo with registration plate AFD 3515 registered under Tiritoga Takawira of Katanga township in Norton.
Said Chakanza: “On 9 August 2025 around 1330 hours, the informant`s colleague Sergeant Nyamuzinga of Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services received a call from Sergeant Murodzi informing him that there was a blue Toyota Passo registration number AFD 3515 which was parked on the road side at Chikurubi Maximum outside the camp along the road which leads to Lafarge. He had seen it since 7 August 2025.
“The informant and his colleague proceeded to the scene and peeped through the front windows which were open and noticed a human body lying at the back of the vehicle lifelessly with its face facing downwards and head covered with a jacket.”
A report was made at Highlands police station and the scene was attended by detectives from CID Homicide, CID Scenes of Crime and Studios.
Chakanza said the body was found lying at the back of the motor vehicle facing downwards.
“The deceased was dressed in all black without shoes, putting on a wrist watch and had gunshot wound on the head which entered through the deceased left side of the head just above the ear and exited through the right side.
“The deceased might have been killed somewhere and dumped at Chikurubi Maximum as witnessed by the difference in type of soil on his clothes and soil at the scene,” he said.
Initial efforts to ring the number of the registered car owner did not yield any results as the phone was not reachable.
Police took the car as an exhibit, while the body was conveyed to Parirenyatwa Hospital for postmortem.
