Donovan Uys, understood to be a leader of the Hard Livings gang, and his girlfriend, were shot dead as they sat thier car.
|||Cape Town - A couple was shot and killed as they sat in their car in Manenberg on Thursday night. Donovan Uys, 50, understood to be a leader of the Hard Livings gang, and his girlfriend, Sandra Simpson, 34, were shot as they sat in a green Toyota Tazz in Rio Grande Street.
The couple had previously come under attack several years ago and Simpson was wounded.
Simpson’s family live in Rio Grande Street, and the shooting took place outside her sister’s house.
On Friday morning neighbours gathered around the scene of the shooting.
Police had removed the Tazz and the crime scene had been cleared.
A member of the Simpson family, Denise, who asked that her surname not be published, told the Cape Argus that two shots rang out in the street shortly before 10pm.
“The windows were rolled down, and we believe that the attackers were known to Donovan and Sandra. Her door was open, and she was lying on the ground next to the car.
“Donovan was still sitting in the driver’s seat,” Denise said.
The couple were already dead when police arrived on the scene a few minutes later.
Simpson’s family believes that the murder was intended to undermine an ongoing case in the Athlone Magistrate’s Court.
Three years ago, Simpson and Donovan were the victims of a shooting in Peta Walk, Manenberg.
Simpson was shot in her leg and buttocks.
A suspect was arrested and is on trial for that shooting.
The Cape Argus could not locate any of Uys’s relatives this on Friday morning.
The couple’s bodies were at Salt River Morgue and Simpson’s family had started to make funeral arrangements. Simpson is survived by a daughter, 16, and a son, 10.
Police said on Friday that the circumstances of the murders were being investigated, and as yet, the motive was unknown.
There had been no arrests by publication time today, said police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Traut.
daneel.knoetze@inl.co.za
Cape Argus