The suspect, who was arrested for the double murder of an Elsies River couple, was known to the family.
Oscar-Lee “Okkie” Adams, the man accused of shooting Jessica Hendricks, 44, and her boyfriend Paul Haai, 49, made his first court appearance at the Goodwood Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday morning.
Dressed in a green and white hoodie, blue jeans and black Puma takkies, the 25-year-old limped his way into the dock.
Holding his injured left hand behind his back, he declined to answer when the magistrate asked what had happened.
The court heard that an attempted murder charge will be added, as a 16-year-old boy was also shot and wounded during the attack on Sunday night.
When asked whether he would be applying for bail, Adams piped up: “Hoe kan ek aansoek doen vir borg vir iets wat ekkie gedoenit nie?”
He was instructed to drop the attitude and then said he would be applying for Legal Aid.
The matter was postponed to 2 September for a formal bail application.
Jessica - a mom of three - was shot as she entered her Wendy house by skollies who were chasing after someone in the street.
Jessica’s brother Africa, who was in the house at the time, said that the gunmen entered the house and shot Paul too, in what the family believes it was a case of mistaken identity.
Jessica’s grieving niece, Jamaine Burgess, 26, says she walked all the way from Clarke Estate to be at court but was not allowed to attend proceedings as it was a closed court.
Fighting back tears, she says Adams was known to the family: “Hulle ken dan vir haar, hulle het groot geraak voor haar. Hoekom doen hulle daai?”