A 70-year-old man was killed in an armed robbery at China Town in Ottery, Cape Town on Sunday, the latest in a spate of robberies targeting shopping complexes recently. Western Cape police told News24 the robbery happened at around 15:00. “Four unidentified suspects robbed a shop and shot and fatally[…]
A Strand mother of two, who was allegedly shot in the head by her police officer boyfriend, is in a critical but stable condition after undergoing surgery. Warrant Officer Nevell du Toit, 44, shot Zaheda Peters, 32, at her home in Dolphin Street in Strand at about 05:00 on Monday.[…]
An Uber taxi driver who witnessed the shooting at the BP garage just outside the Cape Town International Airport on Wednesday told News24 he was standing outside his car at the garage when a Toyota Tazz pulled up behind a cigarette delivery vehicle. “They pointed guns at the delivery men[…]
A 34-year-old pregnant woman was shot dead in her Delft home at the weekend, according to Western Cape police. She was shot in the stomach and chest at the N2 Gateway housing project on Sunday afternoon, Constable Noloyiso Rwexana said on Monday. Police knew her identity and were investigating a[…]
A gunman killed two members of a news crew and injured one more in Moneta, Virginia, in a shooting that was partially captured on video on Wednesday morning. Police are investigating the shooting at the Bridgewater Plaza near Smith Mountain Lake that took place at about 6.45am ET. A news[…]
The white man suspected of murdering nine black people during bible study at a South Carolina church was charged on Wednesday with federal hate crimes, adding to multiple state counts that raise the possibility of a death sentence. “The parishioners had Bibles. Dylann Roof had his .45 caliber Glock pistol[…]
Members of Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez’s family believe deep depression and shame over an drunken driving charge may have led him to go on a rampage in which five U.S. servicemen died last week, a source close to the family said on Tuesday. In seeking to understand what motivated last Thursday’s[…]
Jevon Snyman was on Thursday found guilty of killing an 18-year-old pupil on the tennis court of a Cape Town school in an apparent gang-related attack. The Western Cape High Court found he had acted in common purpose with Wilson Stoffels, who fired the fatal shot to Glenrico Martin’s head[…]
A man was shot dead metres from his car which was stuck in the sand at Blue Waters Beach in Strandfontein on Monday morning. Provincial police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Andrè Traut confirmed the victim was a 26-year-old man. “No one has been arrested as yet,” he said. The motive for[…]
A teenager is expected to appear in the Mitchell’s Plain Magistrate’s Court on Thursday after two people were injured in a shooting in Rocklands, one of them an 11-year-old girl. Provincial police spokesperson Captain FC Van Wyk said the shooting took place in Strandloper Street at 20:20. It is understood[…]
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