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The ballistics expert told Judge Constance Nziweni, that although the gun itself was never recovered, based on the bullet casings, jacket, and the bullet core found in Mihalik's head, that was most likely the weapon used.
The capacity for devastation caused by the two bullets fired through his car window at a 90-degree angle was evident not only by Mihalik's fatal injuries, but the neck wound his son sustained from a piece of the bullet.
Allie explained that she was on call on 30 October 2018, and was told to go out to the scene at 08:15, within an hour of the murder at the intersection of Thornhill and Cavalcade roads in Green Point.
A police officer calls for assistance moments after criminal lawyer Pete Mihalik was shot dead in his car in Green Point, Cape Town.
Two shots had been fired close to the vehicle, with Mihalik in the driver's seat of his Mercedes Benz AMG.
One hit him in the right temple, and the other skimmed the lower part of his face.
Pictures from the scene showed Mihalik slumped in a cut-off T-shirt after taking his last breath soon after the shooting.
A previous witness Stiaan Kotze testified that when he ran down from his house nearby, he checked on Mihalik, but the well-known defense lawyer very soon simply swallowed and took his last breath.
Mihalik's son was in the back seat bleeding, so Kotze frantically gave the boy his hoodie to stop the bleeding. A good Samaritan later rushed the boy to hospital when he started saying he was very sleepy and thirsty.
After Pete Mihalik was shot dead, his young son was rushed to New Somerset Hospital with an escort by a Sea Point police officer. He was then transferred to Chris Barnard to have a bullet removed from his jaw. @TeamNews24
Mihalik's teenage daughter was hysterical and kept pleading for help for her family.
Allie said that when she arrived at the scene, she noted a bullet jacket visible on the road surface beneath the driver's side door, and a bullet casing next to an X-Trail, and another one under the X-Trail parked nearby.
She explained that the bullet jacket is the outer covering of a bullet and the internal covering is the core. The fired cartridge case is the object that ejects from the ejection port, once the gun is fired, from an opening on the side of the gun.
Sizwe Biyela, Nkosinathi Khumalo, and Vuyile Maliti are on trial for Mihalik's murder, the attempted murder of his two children, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition. They pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Police officer Charl Prins from the Sea Point police station took the witness stand next.
The trial continues.
Three accused of murdering Mihalik appear in court The three men accused of Pete Mihalik's murder - Vuyile Maliti, Sinozokohle Biyela and Nkosinathi Khumalo- appear in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Friday February 15, 2019. They are accused of gunning down the Cape Town lawyer on October 30, 2018, while he was doing the morning school run.
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