Stop the shooting! Mitchells Plain residents cry out for help from gang unit
Ongoing shootings in Mitchells Plain are claiming the lives of innocent people, including a grandmother sitting in her lounge.
The South African that innocent victims pay the price in most shootings.
In recent cases, two alleged gang members were shot dead during gang violence in Beacon Valley on Wednesday 31 March and a 61-year-old grandmother was gunned down in Westridge on Monday 29 March.
GRANNY SHOT DEAD IN HER LIVING ROOM
“The woman who was killed was sitting in her living room and the door was open when a guy ran inside the house. The guy was apparently being chased, they shot inside the house a few times and she was killed. In this case she had no involvement with gangs,” said Jantjies.
Samantha Lee-Jacobs
Leader of the Cape Flats Safety Forum, Abie Isaacs, has labelled this urban terror .
Isaacs has called for the deployment of more officers to Mitchells Plain. Urban terror were the words a crime activist used to describe the gun violence which claimed the lives of six people in three days on the streets of Mitchells Plain. I have been saying this for the past two, three years. There is urban terror in Mitchells Plain and on the Cape Flats and it seems there is no will to deal with this, said Abie Isaacs, the former chairperson of the Mitchells Plain Community Police Forum and leader of the Cape Flats Safety Forum.