A BARBER, 28, who according to mense served his community with pride, was amongst three people who were gunned down within 24 hours in Lavender Hill.<\/p>\n
Moegamad Zain Sigourney died in a hailstorm of bullets when he was approached by unknown gunmen riding on bicycles.<\/p>\n
The incident happened Sunday morning at approximately 11am.<\/p>\n
According to a source, Sigourney was sitting in front of his barbershop situated in a Wendy house when he noticed the suspects approaching him.<\/p>\n
The source vertel: \u201cMoegamad was not a gangster; he had no affiliation to any gang.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he noticed the jongens on the bicycles pulling out firearms, he jumped up and tried to run away, but they started shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sigourney was hit in his back by at least seven bullets. He was declared dead on the scene by medical personnel.<\/p>\n
A resident who wanted to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation said her son was on his way to Sigourney\u2019s barbershop for a haircut when he heard the skote klapped.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cMy son was on his way there; he was almost at the barbershop for his haircut when his daughter called him back.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was in that moment that he turned around to go hear what his daughter wanted that the shots went off.<\/p>\n
\u201cShame, Moegamad was a good person. He was not a gangster at all. He has three sons and lives with his granny.\u201d<\/p>\n
Attempts by the Daily Voice to reach Sigourney\u2019s family for comment were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n
Police spokesperson Sergeant Wesley Twigg said Muizenberg police registered a murder case for investigation following a shooting incident on Orchard Road, Hillview.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Twigg said the attackers fled from the scene following the attack and are yet to be apprehended.<\/p>\n
Skaars 24 hours earlier and not far from where Sigourney was gunned down, a 40-year-old-man was shot dead in St Boniface Street in St Montague Village, Lavender Hill.<\/p>\n
The police\u2019s Wesley Twigg wysed two men aged 40 and 26 were shot on Saturday 5 September, at about 18:00.<\/p>\n
Twigg reported: \u201cPolice members attended the crime scene where they found the victims with gunshot wounds to their bodies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 40-year-old victim was declared deceased on the scene by medical personnel, while the other victim was transported to a medical facility for treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to reports, unknown suspects shot at the victims from a Toyota Quantum before fleeing the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
The wounded 26-year-old lay injured for more than two-and-a-half hours before an ambulance arrived on the scene to transport him to a medical facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyone with any information about this shooting incident can contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111 or use the mobile application MySAPS anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A BARBER, 28, who according to mense served his community with pride, was amongst three people who were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[52],"tags":[1708,2546,4365,8380,14559,196705,196704,4671,196707,131,196708,138831,3532,94923,102299,2538,196706],"class_list":["post-413653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa","tag-barber","tag-crime-stop","tag-daily-voice","tag-father","tag-lavender-hill","tag-lavender-hill-a-barber","tag-moegamat-zain","tag-people","tag-skaars","tag-south-africa","tag-st-boniface-street","tag-st-montague-village","tag-steenberg","tag-toyota-quantum","tag-wendy","tag-wesley-twigg","tag-zain"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/117226191234231963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413653","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=413653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}