# The case against a police officer accused of shooting dead his girlfriend on Sunday was postponed to Friday after he appeared before the Piketberg Magistrate’s Court in Western Cape yesterday. Richard Smit allegedly shot and killed 32-year-old Natasha Booise in front of her 11-year-old son and family members. Anti-GBV activist, Chalmane Kruger says many victims die as a result of police negligence because it was questionable how a gun could slip out of the police station to the hands of an off-duty officer.