A Cape Town community is still reeling in shock after a matric pupil was gunned down hours before he could see his matric results.
It is understood that 18-year-old Wakeel Dreyer was at a tuckshop in Mitchells Plain on Thursday afternoon when he was shot 17 times in what is thought to be a gang-related shooting.
Scores of people gathered at the scene on Thursday afternoon after a group of men allegedly pulled up at a tuckshop and shot the matric pupil 17 times.
Western Cape police said a group of men in a vehicle pulled up and began firing shots.
Warrant Officer Joseph Swartbooi, Western Cape police spokesperson said they found the boy’s body just after 4pm.
“Mitchells Plain police members attended a complaint on Thursday 19 January 2023. Upon arrival at the address in Palestina Street at around 16:35, they found the body of an 18-year-old male who sustained multiple gunshot wounds it his body.
“The victim was declared deceased on the scene by the medical personnel. The unknown suspects fled the scene and are yet to be arrested. The motive for the attack is yet to be determined,” Swartbooi said.
He said the circumstances surrounding the shooting are under investigation.
Speaking to News24, Dreyer’s mother, Lucinda Roberts was shattered that her only child was killed in such a cruel manner.
She told the publication she rushed to the scene when she got the news, but his body had already been covered.
“I then said, ‘no, that is not my son’, in the hope that he would walk out of the shop. But then they lifted the sheet from his face, and I just burst out crying and screaming. How is this even possible? My son, my beautiful boy is gone from this world so soon,” she told News24.
The bereaved mother said she believed her son was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
She called for justice to be served on the perpetrators who killed her son.
Source: News24, IOL, The Citizen, Jacaranda FM, image from Twitter: @SwisherPost
