Another innocent father from Hanover Park is dead after heartless skollies shot him seven times shortly after he visited his mother on Sunday.
Hartseer relatives of Cameron Constable, 36, say he had just completed his training for a new job on Saturday and had gone to his mother’s house to share the good news and hours later he was killed.
The murder follows the killing of father-of-two
Jerome Arthur, 42, who was shot six times in the crossfire between the Ghetto Kidz and Americans gangs.
VICTIM: Cameron Constable, 36
Mom Alice Davids, 59, says Cameron arrived at her home in Groenall Walk all smiles on Sunday afternoon as he bragged about his new job at the Astron Energy Cape Town Refinery. That night, she was called to Ryburg Road, where residents found his bullet-ridden body.
“He has one 13-year-old daughter and he was very excited for the job. He was looking for work for a long time because he wanted to be able to support her,” she says.
“He was at my house the whole day and came to tell me that he got a job as a pipe fitter at a refinery in Milnerton and would start work soon.
“Just after 8pm, a boy came to knock on my door saying he was shot.”
Wife Salama, 49, says she got a shock when she arrived at the scene near Belmor Primary School and found her husband of six years with five gunshots in the head.
“When I got there, he was dead already, they shot him five times in the head - once in the chest and once in the arm,” she says.
“I still can’t believe that they shot him like that when he is not even a gangster.
“We are hartseer because he sukkeled for almost a year to find work and just finished his induction training and they told him he got the job and would start 14 February.”
SCENE: Cameron Constable was shot and killed in Ryburg Road, Hanover Park, on Sunday
Police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk confirmed: “The circumstances surrounding a shooting incident at about 9pm in Ryburg Road, Hanover Park, where a 36-year-old male was shot and fatally wounded, is under investigation by Philippi SAPS.
“The possibility that the incident can be gang-related will be investigated. The suspects fled the scene and yet to be arrested.”
Salama doesn’t know why her husband was targeted.
“We heard the shooters ran towards Agulhas Court, but we don’t know if it was (a case of) mistaken identity because he does not have one tjappie on his body. We want the perpetrators to be caught,” she says.
Anyone with any information is asked to call Philippi SAPS on 021 690 1500.