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.