A RAVENSMEAD man was shot and killed yesterday afternoon as police investigated a crime scene in Edgar Bullock Street.<\/p>\n
Details were scarce when the Daily Voice enquired about the incident, with the South African Police Service reporting that officers were on an active scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police spokesperson Constable Ndakhe Gwala reported: \u201cThis office confirms that a 25-year-old male was shot and fatally wounded in Edgar Bullock Street, Ravensmead.<\/p>\n
“Ravensmead police are currently on the crime scene. A case of murder has been registered for further investigation. The motive for the shooting is yet to be determined.”<\/p>\n
In a separate incident, an alleged Wesbank skollie has been arrested after a sting at his house.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anti-Gang Unit officers raided a home in Framesby Street in the early hours of Wednesday morning and busted a 53-year-old for the illegal of a firearm and illegal possession of ammunition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police spokesperson Constable Ndakhe Gwala reported: \u201cOn Wednesday 7 January 2026, at approximately 2.10am, members of the Anti-Gang Unit, deployed in Wesbank amidst ongoing gang violence were tracing suspects for murder when they received intelligence about a firearm hidden at an address in Framesby Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cUpon arrival, they found a 53-year-old gang affiliated male. A search was conducted which resulted in the discovery of a 9mm pistol with nine rounds of ammunition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspect was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm and illegal possession of ammunition. <\/p>\n
\u201cOnce charged, the suspect will make his first appearance in the Blue Downs Magistrate\u2019s Court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Lockdown III members arrested two suspects for possession of dangerous weapons, while conducting random stop and searches in Delft on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Gwala added: \u201cMembers searched a 22-year-old male in Amur Street and found a dangerous weapon. \u201cThey proceeded to Eindhoven Street where they searched a 35-year-old female and found another dangerous weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Furthermore, members searched a house in Ebro Street, Delft at around 22:00 and confiscated 25 sachets of tik. A 31-year-old female suspect was arrested for possession of illegal drugs.<\/p>\n
The three suspects will appear in the Bellville Magistrate\u2019s court on the mentioned charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A RAVENSMEAD man was shot and killed yesterday afternoon as police investigated a crime scene in Edgar Bullock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[7004,4910,7003,7000,3541,7001,6998,6999,6996,6994,7002,6993,4151,6995,131,6997,6305,4864,6992],"class_list":{"0":"post-9975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-amur-street","9":"tag-anti-gang-unit","10":"tag-bellville-magistrate","11":"tag-blue-downs-magistrates-court","12":"tag-delft","13":"tag-ebro-street","14":"tag-eindhoven-street","15":"tag-framesby-street","16":"tag-gun","17":"tag-house","18":"tag-lockdown-iii","19":"tag-members","20":"tag-ndakhe-gwala","21":"tag-possession","22":"tag-south-africa","23":"tag-sting","24":"tag-suspect","25":"tag-wesbank","26":"tag-wesbank-skollie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975","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=9975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}