A 9-year-old boy has been shot in Lotus River. The incident occurred last night at about 8 pm at a premises on 1st Avenue. Grassy Park Police have opened a case of attempted murder case following the shooting incident.
A 9-year-old boy has been shot in Lotus River
The 9-year-old is currently receiving treatment at a medical facility. Captain FC Van Wyk says when officers arrived on the scene, they discovered that a 9-year-old boy had been shot in his left leg.
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A case of attempted murder case
According to reports a Grey Toyota Etios with unknown registration plates had driven past the premises and 2 unidentified males, both armed started shooting randomly at the victims. Van Wyk says the motive is believed to be gang-related.
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Information needed
No one has been arrested yet. The Police have asked anyone with information to contact them. You can also phone Crime Stop on 08600 10111.
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This is what the Safer-Spaces.Org website has compiled about Gangs.
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Why are there gangs?
Cape Town is an enigma. It’s one of the most spectacular cities in the world and also one of the most violent. In 2015 there were over 2,000 murders – an average of six a day.
If the media is an indicator, this is a city drenched in gang violence. But are gangs at the heart of this violence? Police calculate that 11% of murders in the city are due to gang violence, the rest are domestic violence or the result of shebeen brawls.
But there are still a lot of gangs, and we need to explore why. One of my early discoveries was that Cape Town doesn’t have a gang problem so much as a youth problem of which gangs are one of the outcomes. Fixing the gang problem means solving the adolescent problem.
In 2016 nearly half (49%) of young people aged 15 – 35 were unemployed. In January 2017 South Africa had the highest recorded youth unemployment in the world. Half the kids who start school don’t make matric and 3.4 million aged 11–24 are not in education, employment or training. In Cape Town, that figure, at last count, was 317,000.
Around five million young people live in a household where nobody has a formal job and 26% are in child-headed households. The conclusion is that most of these young people are on the streets with nothing to do. And trouble follows idle hands. (FROM THE WEBSITE https://www.saferspaces.org.za/)
