A well-known local character, who lived in a building at Athlone Stadium, was shot dead in a mystery attack.
|||Cape Town - A well-known local character, who lived in a building in the Astro Turf area of Athlone Stadium, was shot dead in an apparently senseless attack on Monday night.
Shaun Wilters, known by the nickname Agent, was struck in the stomach by one of 13 bullets fired when he opened the door of the building to a knock at about 8.55pm, his brother Llewellyn said.
“There was something fishy about this. A black BMW with North West province plates drove by a couple of times before the shooting,” Wilters said.
“My brother wasn’t a ‘deurmekaar’ guy, if you know what I mean. He had many friends and did not fight with anybody.
“People knew him as a person who repaired motorcycles and the way the shooting happened, anybody who had opened the door could have been shot. It just happened to be Agent who opened the door.”
The people who lived in the Astro Turf building had won the right to stay there by court order, Wilters said.
“We all live in our own rooms. When they tried to kick us out during the World Cup, the court found that we could stay here.
“Apparently, one guy knocked on the door and when Agent opened it, the other guy fired the shots.
“At the time, Agent and another guy were busy fixing cellphones and the other guy had gone around the corner to fetch a pair of pliers. That was when Agent opened the door and was shot.
“I know Agent used drugs, although he never did it in front of me. But this could not have been about drugs. This was something else.”
At the time of publication, police liaison officers had not been able to get official information about the shooting.
Cape Argus