Three people have been shot in the same Manenberg road in the past two days, with one woman shot while sleeping next to her kids.
|||Cape Town - Three people have been shot in the same Manenberg Road in the past two days, with the most recent incident involving a woman who was wounded in both legs while sleeping beside her children.
The children were unhurt.
Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said the incident occurred at about 5am on Monday.
An unidentified man had kicked open the door and fired several shots at the woman and children as they lay sleeping.
The woman, 28, was the second woman to be shot in Scheldt Walk on Monday, while a man was shot in the same street on Sunday.
Kader Jacobs, Manenberg Community Police Forum spokesman, said a woman, 21, had been shot in the leg on Monday at 1.24am.
“Both incidents could be gang-related because Scheldt Walk is infested with gangsters,” Jacobs said.
“It was all-out war between 2am and 5am (on Monday)… there was a lot of gunfire,” Jacobs said.
On Sunday, Deon Titus, 47, was shot in the left shoulder in Scheldt Walk. There have been four murders in Manenberg in the past month as gangsters have been waging pitched battles.
On Saturday, a 23-year-old man died after being shot in the neck in Dina Court.
Jacobs said the forum had asked the police to deploy three more Nyalas to hot spots such as Scheldt Walk in the area. “It does make a difference. In Renoster Road there haven’t been any shootings since Friday after a Nyala was stationed there.”
Jacobs said Hard Livings and Americans gangsters were not interested in peace talks because “too much blood” had been spilled.
“They are definitely taking revenge for all the people that have been killed.
“The situation is extremely volatile at the moment.”
A Manenberg resident said on Facebook: “It was hailing bullets again here in our road in Manenberg, an innocent woman got hit.
“Upon hearing she got hit I phoned the ambulance service and was told that I should contact police to get an ambulance as they are not entering Manenberg due to the heavy gang war.
“I don’t blame them because I know how hectic it is here. My nerves are so klaar.”
Meanwhile, police confirmed that a man was shot in the leg in Long Kloof Road in Heideveld on Monday afternoon.
Details of the shooting were unknown because the victim could not be located.
“We are waiting on the victim to report the matter so that a docket can be opened and the case could then be investigated,” said police spokesman Colonel André Traut.
Community Safety MEC Dan Plato told the Cape Argus on Sunday that most of the gang battles were over drug turf or the initiation of gangsters.
* Anyone with information about the shootings should contact Manenberg SAPS at 021 699 9400 or Crime Stop at 08600 10111.
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Cape Argus