Four people taken in for questioning in relation to DJ Warras murder

The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department raided Zambesi House in the Johannesburg CBD on 18 December 2025. This, after Warrick Stock known as DJ Warras was shot and killed outside the building on 16 December 2025. Picture: Sphamandla Dlamini/EWN

Four people were taken in for questioning in relation to the murder of Warrick Stock, known as DJ Warras, on Thursday night.

Members of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) conducted a raid at Zambesi House in the CBD, an eight-storey apartment that Warras had been contracted to secure through his company, Imperium Ops.

Warras was gunned down outside the building just after midday on Tuesday.

Last Friday, Warras applied for a protection order against six tenants of the building who had allegedly threatened him and his security personnel.

Speaking to EWN during the raid, MMC for Public Safety Mgcini Tshwaku confirmed that four of the six people Warras had applied for protection orders against were taken for questioning by members of JMPD’s tactical response unit.

“We confiscated a phone from a lady, and when we looked at the messages, there is some laughter where she says, ‘Oh, he died’. So, the extraction team has taken them for questioning. We have taken all their phones; we are going to go through them and all these conversations. So, someone in this building knows what is happening.”

Tshwaku said that they received intel from tenants in the building about certain threats Warras received from members of a committee who refused to pay rent in an attempt to hijack the building.

“There has been talk in the building itself, [with] some of the tenants talking about dealing with the security that is here, dealing with him [Warras] as well, because he has taken the six for the protection order. They were saying, ‘You want us to be evicted, you want us to be arrested, but we are going to deal with you’.”