The Ravensmead community is reeling in shock after two gunmen opened fire on an Anemone Road home, killing a visitor and injuring four children, one critically.
A 60-year-old witness says the family had been enjoying the antics of two 12-year-old children, who were dancing in the house on Saturday night when more than 10 gunshots rang out.
Another source, 35, says: “We were sitting and watching them and they were getting ready to battle each other when two guys with guns started shooting at Denver Simon, 25.”
The sources said Denver was visiting that family.
“He was there for the night. They killed him and then they tried to get into the house,” said the source.
The family held the door closed, but the assailants “started shooting through the window”.
One child was hit in the chest, missing the kid’s heart by one centimetre. Another child was struck in the jaw.
TARGET: Denver Simon, 25, was visiting the family. Photo: Supplied
The first source says during the horrific ordeal, two other children were outside and walking to the front of the house when the gunmen shot one child in the arm and the other in the back.
Both kids, aged 12, are in Red Cross Hospital where the one is in a critical condition as the bullet hit the child’s spinal cord.
Police spokesperson, Captain FC van Wyk, confirms the incident and says police are investigating a murder and attempted murder cases with no arrests as yet.
The other kids were treated at Tygerberg Hospital and discharged with bullets in their bodies. Their parents took them to Red Cross on Sunday to have the bullets removed.
WOUNDED: Boys who are recovering after they were shot. Photo: Monique Duval/Daily Voice
The source says the family is praying for recovery of the child who is critical.
“We are honestly living in fear because we don’t know why they came to shoot or kill Denver. He is not even a gangster and works at a place in Blackheath,” says the source.
“His family is very hartseer and we are just hoping [the child] can recover because on Sunday both her lungs collapsed, but they got the one [lung] to work again.”
Community leader David van Wyk says the shooting has rocked the community, and have called on Police Minister Bheki Cele to provide a solution.
“There is a lot of focus on Uitsig because of the gangs and we want to know what is being done about Ravensmead because both areas fall under the same police station and the shooting of children is not on,” he says.
“They are lucky to be alive the way those guys shot. We want to know what the minister is going to do.”