Bokmakierie residents are living in fear after an alleged gang boss was gunned down while leaving mosque on Friday.
Cops say two gunmen walked up to Shafiek “Fiekie Viking” Meyer, 42, and fired six shots at his head as he left Jumu’ah salaah.
According to a police source, Fiekie and another man were leaving Masjied Khaleel shortly before 2pm when they were attacked by two gunmen.
“It was a hit on Fiekie. Him and another guy were leaving the mosque and a white Toyota Corolla pulled up and two guys got out and shot him in the head,” says the source.
“They fired six shots at him and a stray bullet hit a small child near the mosque. They were definitely targeting him, he was dead instantly and the people quickly covered his body.
“He is the leader of the Vikings who are coming under fire from the HLs [Hard Livings] because the HLs want to rule Bokmakierie. The man who was with him was not hurt.”
Police spokesperson, Lieutenant-Colonel Andrè Traut, confirms the incident and says no arrests have been made yet.
A 31-year-old resident who attended Fiekie’s janaazah on Saturday says they are now living in fear.
“There were so many cars and people it was like the president was getting buried,” says the resident.
“Everyone in Bokmakierie knows that only the HLs have something to gain by him being dead. There is going to be a moerse retaliation because Fiekie was very popular.
ASSASSINATED: Shafiek ‘Fiekie Viking’ Meyer
“We know the Vikings are going to hit back, we just don’t know when so for now everyone is bang. He has lots of houses in Bokmakierie.”
Meyer was allegedly a member of the 28s prison gang and smokkeled with drugs, perlemoen and crayfish.
He allegedly owned drug dens in Kewtown and Bokmakierie, where he lived.
In May last year, he was arrested after he was fingered as the person who ordered a hit in Short Street in which Asheeq Mitchell, 12, was killed and two men injured.
Jerome Cupido had handed himself over to cops after hearing “rumours” he had been named as Asheeq’s killer, but denied involvement.
While in Pollsmoor, authorities launched an investigation into Meyer and others after a video emerged of prisoners being dik gedrug and listening to music.
They made the video and also took selfies, which they posted on social media.
There are about 20 inmates in the cell, among them Meyer, Cupido and murder suspects Waylon Botha, 23, and Samier Slamang, 28.
Slamang and Botha were arrested and charged with corruption and defeating the ends of justice earlier that week after a cop allegedly allowed them to enter the holding cells and smokkel in a cellphone and drugs for Meyer.
Slamang and Botha were acquitted in 2017 of the murder of six-year-old Saadiqah Lippert of Bokmakierie.