Port Elizabeth police have arrested a suspect in connection with a brutal hammer attack on an elderly Kamma Park woman in May.
The 86-year-old Ann Smit died in hospital a month later following the incident.
Police spokesperson, Warrant Officer Alwin Labans, says members of a senior task team under Captain Chris Rowan, made the breakthrough on Thursday.
He says the team arrested a 21-year-old man in Missionvale who has been positively linked to Smit's assault and murder.
Laban's says police are still searching for a second suspect.
On the 28th of May, a neighbour saw three men jump over a wall to the woman's house and alerted police.
He said the assailants, who assaulted the woman with a hammer, fled the scene but dropped a bag filled with stolen goods.
Only when police arrived on the scene they discovered Smit's body lying on the kitchen floor.
