Residents in Bonteheuwel are recovering from a bloody weekend of gun violence.
On Friday three people were shot in Camellia Street with one confirmed dead and two others in a critical condition.
The motive behind this shooting is unknown at this time.
On the opposite end of Bonteheuwel another individual was shot and murdered and across from Bonteheuwel in Netreg another shooting incident took place.
Local ward councillor Angus McKenzie says thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those affected by this senseless violence.
“There is no doubt and it is firmly placed in our minds that gangsters in the area are highly frustrated with the operations of a combined law enforcement agency approach, a closer working relationship between the various role players and a community dead set on rooting out the evil that exists within it.
“While these shooting incidents are highly opportunistic we are well aware that the fight for drug turf not only underscores the reason, but is the motivation behind it.
“I want to however make it abundantly clear to gangsters that we will not relent in our pursuit to rid our community of them, their drugs and their terrorism,” says McKenzie.
He says communities are protecting gangsters.
“Gangsters and those protecting them are our enemy and we will fight back against our enemy and we will not give up. We have tasted the success of peace and we enjoyed it and therefore we will not allow ourselves to return to a place where a minority assumes control over all of us.
“Those that know what happened in that home in Camellia Street must speak up. They must be joined by every single resident in support of a peaceful community and they must reject the notion that gangsters assume control, because they do not.
“Gangsters are our children, they are not aliens sent from Mars and if the parents and families of these individuals are happy to protect them as a community, we will reject them,” says McKenzie.
The police confirmed the incident, but no arrests have been made yet.
