Re: News From Southern Africa
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 12:22 am
Coloured hijacker shoots only child in full view of her elderly mother
An elderly white woman could do nothing but watch as a coloured hijacker, dressed in a school uniform, drove off in her daughter’s car after she was shot in the back and left face down in the middle of the street.
Hours later, two coloured teenagers – the alleged shooter, who is a 16-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old girl – were arrested with the stolen car in Bluewater Bay, while a third teenager fled into nearby bushes.
Magda van Vuuren (pictured right), 53, died on arrival in hospital after her mother, Sally Potgieter, 83, saw the horrific scene play out right in front of her Adcockvale home, at around 3pm.
“I heard the shots go off – I think two,” Potgieter said, her hands shaking as she pointed to the spot in the street where her daughter was shot.
“I got such a fright. The second one hit Magda and I saw her collapse in the street. He [a coloured teenager] drove off and she was just lying there in the street, flat on her stomach, not moving. She was my only child.”
The shooter and four other coloured youths, who were sitting close to where the shooting occurred in Diaz Road, were believed to be wearing Westview School uniforms.
The school could not be reached for comment.
Van Vuuren had just left her mother’s house and was getting into her BMW as one of the young coloured men walked up.
Source: The Herald
An elderly white woman could do nothing but watch as a coloured hijacker, dressed in a school uniform, drove off in her daughter’s car after she was shot in the back and left face down in the middle of the street.
Hours later, two coloured teenagers – the alleged shooter, who is a 16-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old girl – were arrested with the stolen car in Bluewater Bay, while a third teenager fled into nearby bushes.
Magda van Vuuren (pictured right), 53, died on arrival in hospital after her mother, Sally Potgieter, 83, saw the horrific scene play out right in front of her Adcockvale home, at around 3pm.
“I heard the shots go off – I think two,” Potgieter said, her hands shaking as she pointed to the spot in the street where her daughter was shot.
“I got such a fright. The second one hit Magda and I saw her collapse in the street. He [a coloured teenager] drove off and she was just lying there in the street, flat on her stomach, not moving. She was my only child.”
The shooter and four other coloured youths, who were sitting close to where the shooting occurred in Diaz Road, were believed to be wearing Westview School uniforms.
The school could not be reached for comment.
Van Vuuren had just left her mother’s house and was getting into her BMW as one of the young coloured men walked up.
Source: The Herald