THREE Kraaifontein families are looking for answers after two teens were gunned down and their female pal was shot and wounded while drinking at a friend’s house last Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The community was rocked by a devastating shooting on 30 December when 19-year-old Shawn Afrikaaner and his friend, known only as Herschell, were killed.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old woman survived to tell the tale after being struck in the leg.<\/p>\n
The learner from Scottsdene High School, who wants to protect her identity, said the shooting occurred as they were leaving to go home at around 10pm.<\/p>\n
She explained: \u201cWe were sitting at a friend\u2019s house drinking and as we were about to leave that was when someone came around the corner and started shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could not see the face, everything happened so fast. I ran inside and when I came out that was when I saw Shawn and Herschell lying on the ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was shot in the leg and was taken to the day hospital. I thought I was going to die that day. The bullet is still stuck in my leg but it will be removed on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s mother said that she is grateful that her daughter is alive.<\/p>\n
The mom added: \u201cI can only thank God that my daughter survived, but I am heartbroken for the two guys who lost their lives because they are still young.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mother of Shawn Afrikaaner, 19, who does not want to be named, said: \u201cWhen I came home from work on Tuesday, Shawn was sleeping. Someone came to fetch him to go drink. I didn\u2019t even know he left because he will always say when he is leaving.<\/p>\n
\u201cShawn just left. Nog nie lank, nie toe word daar geskiet. We don\u2019t know why the shooting took place.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe heard the gunshots but we thought it was klappertjies but I said it can\u2019t be klappertjies because it is agter mekaar. Then the friends came saying, \u2018Shawn is dood geskiet\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cShawn was very quiet, he was not rude. His father is heartbroken and I cannot eat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police spokesperson Sergeant Wesley Twigg confirmed that Kraaifontein police registered two counts of murder and one of attempted murder.<\/p>\n
Twigg reported: \u201cThe two 19-year-old victims were declared deceased on the scene by medical personnel, while the other victim was taken to a medical facility for treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe motive for the attack forms part of the police investigation and arrests are yet to be made.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police are appealing to anyone with any information about this shooting incident to contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111 or use the mobile application MySAPS anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THREE Kraaifontein families are looking for answers after two teens were gunned down and their female pal was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[2546,3098,3094,3091,3097,3095,3093,3096,3090,131,3092,2538],"class_list":{"0":"post-3706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-crime-stop","9":"tag-day-hospital","10":"tag-dumezweni-street","11":"tag-families","12":"tag-god","13":"tag-herschell","14":"tag-kraaifontein","15":"tag-scottsdene-high-school","16":"tag-shawn-afrikaaner","17":"tag-south-africa","18":"tag-teens","19":"tag-wesley-twigg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}