{"id":294914,"date":"2025-11-12T11:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/?p=294914"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:12:19","slug":"three-bodies-found-in-car-with-multiple-gun-shot-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/three-bodies-found-in-car-with-multiple-gun-shot-wounds\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH | Three bodies found in car with multiple gun shot wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Patrolling police officers chanced upon a gruesome and puzzling scene in the early hours of this morning (Wednesday 12 November). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lentegeur police spokesperson Const Navon van Houten said officers investigated a grey Volkswagen Polo parked on the corner of Park Road and Hillcrest Street in Montclare at 06:00 this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen the members inspected the vehicle they saw occupants inside without any signs of life,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='417' height='750' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/xYph6ZhQ?cover=1&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;useAverageColor=1&amp;hd=0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250'><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption>A video circulating on social media shows police investigating a Volkwagen Polo that was found with three bodies inside this morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers called for an ambulance and paramedics declared the three occupants, two men and a woman, dead on arrival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victims had multiple gunshot wounds, but no casings were found on the scene, Van Houten said. Residents, however, reported hearing shots when police questioned them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-shot-elsewhere\">Shot elsewhere<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Houten said police suspect the victims were shot elsewhere and then driven to that spot and the car was abandoned there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lentegeur Community Policing Forum chair Michael Jacobs said: \u201cWe call on the South African Police Service and the relevant authorities to look thoroughly at the circumstances surrounding the three ending up being found dead in a car.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He confirmed police\u2019s suspicion that the murders had occurred elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/nobody-arrested-for-delft-extortion-murder-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>IN OTHER NEWS:<\/strong> Nobody arrested for Delft extortion murder yet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe as a community cannot allow gun violence to continue unabated in our communities,\u201d he said, also calling for \u201cconstant roadblocks\u201d and stop-and-searches. &#8220;We ask the police services to step their patrols up as well as their search capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are calling on all authorities in law enforcement to get to the bottom of this triple killing and we cannot allow that there are no consequences for gun violence, not only in Lentegeur and Mitchell\u2019s Plain but on the whole of the Cape Flats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-gang-related\">Gang-related?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Houten added that police do not think the shootings are gang-related.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police\u2019s provincial media centre issued a statement saying that the victims were all young people in their early twenties and that an intensive investigation has been launched, but claimed that the shooting was suspected to be gang-related.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provincial Commissioner of the Western Cape Lt-Gen (Adv) Thembisile Patekile, in a statement, expressed strong condemnation of the senseless act of violence and reiterated the police&#8217;s unwavering commitment to dismantling gangs and rooting those who continue to terrorise communities out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/five-wounded-in-drive-by-shooting-in-fisantekraal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>IN OTHER NEWS:<\/strong> Five wounded in drive-by shooting in Fisantekraal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGangsterism has no place in our society,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The South African Police Service will continue to exert pressure on these criminal networks until every individual involved in violent crimes is brought to justice.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the public are urged to assist police by sharing any information that could aid the investigation. 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