Slain Durban metro cop ‘lived to serve’, says widow

A tearful Faith Ogle says her husband was a godly man: He stood for righteousness in the force, he wouldn't take a cent from anybody and he lived for the force.

 

“He was so humble, I didn't even know he impacted so many people's lives. He told me he was a servant, and that's who he was."

 

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A week ago, Ogle was shot and killed by suspected truckjackers near the M7/Hans Dettman interchange.

 

He had ordered the driver of a truck that was going against traffic to stop when the hijackers opened fire on him.

 

They took his service firearm and drove off in his marked metro police car, which was later found abandoned in Pinetown.

 

Faith Ogle says her husband was dedicated to patrolling the M7 and would park at the top of the highway.

 

She says she found out about her husband through social media posts by a tow truck driver who named the victim of the shooting.

 

"We know the only Ogle that protected the M7. I went mad because I knew my protector was gone, Errol couldn't harm anybody, and to me, it was senseless. Errol was going back to the station he didn't expect it. He drove into it, and so was the person that he was and the passion that he had for the lives of the M7." 

"He stopped them. He didn't have a chance, they shot him in his car. He didn't even get a chance to get out of the car and say why are you travelling contraflow."

 

Three men have been arrested and remanded in custody following their first court appearance in Pinetown earlier this week.

 

Mrs Ogle says she's already forgiven them. " I want to get angry, but I can see him (Errol) holding me because he can calm a person. Errol had a grace of God in his life that anybody in the Metro police could speak to him and I can picture him holding me saying Faith, let it go and let God."