Gang violence across the Cape Flats has claimed more lives, after two men were shot dead in Manenberg and Lavender Hill.
|||Cape Town - Gang violence across the Cape Flats continues to claim lives with the latest victim a 23-year-old man shot dead in Manenberg over the weekend - the fourth murder in the area in the past month.
The 23-year-old was shot in the neck in a suspected gang attack in Dina Court on Saturday. He died shortly after arriving at GF Jooste Hospital.
Provincial police spokesman Colonel Tembinkosi Kinana said: “Witnesses said they heard gunshots and then saw the 23-year-old victim run and collapse in the Dina Court flats’ yard.” A murder docket had been opened.
Another Manenberg resident is recovering in hospital after he was shot on Sunday.
Deon Titus, 47, was in Scheldt Walk when he was approached by three men who shot at him. A relative, who did not want to be named, said Titus gone to a shop to buy a cigarette.
Kinana said the men approached as Titus was entering the shop’s front gate. “He then asked what they wanted. Without any warning one of the three males pulled out a firearm and fired several shots at him, hitting him in the left shoulder and grazing his forehead.”
The men fled on foot. A case of attempted murder has been opened.
In Lavender Hill
, father of two Edmund Booysen, 29, was shot dead on Friday as he left for work from his St Montague Village home.
His mother, Ansoline Syce, said he left home at about 5am. Minutes later, a neighbour rushed over to tell her that Booysen had been shot.
Nazley Solomons, Booysen’s partner of nine years, was devastated by his death. His aunt, Wilma Heynes, said Booysen was a no-nonsense person who wasn’t intimidated by anyone. “The sad part is that he has two boys aged two and four.”
Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said the shooting was being investigated.
The murder followed a shooting in Lavender Hill on Wednesday night. A 29-year-old man died after being shot eight times in the neck and face.
Meanwhile, eight people are to appear in the Simon’s Town Magistrate’s Court on Monday in connection with an attack on an alleged drug dealer’s house in Ocean View.
The group were arrested on Saturday night and charged with public violence after they allegedly burnt boats, smashed a car and damaged the roof of a house believed to belong to an alleged drug lord in Pluto Street. Police evacuated the family.
The tyres of five police vans were also damaged.
Police said it was apparently a revenge attack for the shooting of a 32-year-old man that morning.
Community Safety MEC Dan Plato said most of the gang battles were over drug turf or the initiation of gangsters.
Community Safety MEC Dan Plato said most of the gang battles over drug turf or the initiation of gangsters behind the shootings.
Cape Argus