Gangsters shot and killed a well-known computer technician and wounded a youth who had apparently recognised the killers.
|||Cape Town - Gangsters shot and killed a well-known computer technician in Rocklands last night and wounded a youth who had apparently recognised the killers.
Neighbours of a man identified only as Lorenzo “Charra”, but who’s surname is understood to be Payne, said two men arrived at their victim’s Pluto Road home and called him out to talk to him at about 7pm.
After a conversation, he turned and walked back in, only to be called out again.
Then the two men drew firearms. The man called Charra turned and ran back to his house but died at the front door. Police say he had been shot in the chest. Neighbours thought he had been shot in the back as he fled to his house.
An unnamed 17-year-old youth who saw the shooting and recognised the gunmen ran from the scene, followed by the gunmen. They fired at him, hitting him in the left side and left arm.
Neighbours, who said the gunmen appeared to be gangsters, said the murdered man was well known in the area for repairing people’s home computers. The shooting took place not far from where a number of Pakistanis were shot and killed in a bakery about two months ago. The murdered man was at the scene of those killings.
Police liaison officer Captain FC van Wyk said no arrests had been made. A murder and attempted murder case was opened for investigation.
Contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111 with information.
Cape Argus