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Police in Western Cape have launched a manhunt for a group of unknown men who shot and killed a teen in Mitchells Plain on Thursday. after a teenager who was in matric was killed hours before the release of results.
Eighteen-year-old Wakeel Dreyer was shot and killed hours before he was due to receive his matric exam results at Beacon Hill High School.
Police spokesperson Jospeh Swartbooi says a group of men in a car pulled up at a tuck shop and shot Dreyer 17 times.
“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.
“Mitchells Plain police are investigating a murder,” says Swartbooi.
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 simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.
She further called for justice to be served on the perpetrators who murdered her boy.
Roberts said she and her son had a whole day planned for the release of his matric results. It would also have been his school valedictory.
Dreyer has been described as a loving boy who knew how to make people smile.
Police urge anyone with information regarding the shooting incident to contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111.
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