Zolani Tete, the two-time world boxing champion who scored the fastest knockout in a world title fight, was shot and killed outside of his home Friday. He was 38.
Tete, nicknamed “Last Born,” was killed in Mdantsane, a town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, the Republic of South Africa confirmed.
According to a news release from the Ministry of Sport, Arts and Culture of South Africa, Tete was in a car with a 27-year-old woman waiting for the gate to open at his home when two masked gunmen shot at him and the woman.
The woman, per the release, was shot multiple times and hospitalized.
Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie said the South African Police Service is investigating the death.
“There are no words I can offer tonight that will be equal to what you have lost,” McKenzie wrote in a statement directed to Tete’s family.
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