Eureka Estate has been left shaken after three members of the community died during a shooting.
A shop owner and teen were shot and killed, and an ouma died in a freak accident after a car rammed into her during the shooting on Saturday at 10.40am.
The teen was shot five times and died in hospital while the shop owner and ouma were killed on the scene.
The driver, in his last moments, lost control of his car and drove into the elderly woman and then a wall, and she died under a pile of bricks.
On Sunday the teen’s mother had the heartbreaking task of switching off the life support of her 16-year-old son, Keanan Blom.
Jacqueline Blom, 37, says the two were attacked while driving from the wholesalers.
Just like any other day, the boy was helping Abdullah Abibahia at his huiswinkel in 40th Street which is in the same street as his Eureka Estate home in Elsies River.
She says she heard from witnesses that a car was following Abdullah.
“They started shooting at his car and Abdullah crashed into the old woman.
“Abdullah was dead and then one of the shooters got out of the car and started shooting at my son.”
The teen was rushed to hospital.
Keanan was shot in the legs, head and his face and the bullets broke his jaw.
“Yesterday the doctors called me on the phone and told me that they can’t do anything more for my child,” says Jacqueline.
“They gave me a moment to be with him and say goodbye.
“I told him I love him and that he is a strong boy.”
She says he squeezed her hand and she had hope that he would wake up.
“He even shed a tear, and I thought he was still going to be alright, but the nurses told me that it is the machine doing that.
“This has left me shattered because he was never involved in anything inappropriate, he was a Grade 8 learner in Ravensmead and he was a good child who was always helpful.”
After Abdullah was shot, he drove for a few metres, hitting 84-year-old Rebecca Buys before crashing into a wall.
The elderly woman was taking a walk and stood no chance, says her heartbroken granddaughter Michelle Maarman: “She was alive for a few minutes, but couldn’t talk and then she died right there on the scene.
“The impact was so hard that my grandma’s leg from the knee was removed by the car.
“I never thought that we would lose her like this. I thought maybe she would die of old age because she was still very healthy and she usually took walks like the day she died.”
SAPS’ Colonel Andre Traut confirms the incident and says “the circumstances surrounding the double murder and culpable homicide are being investigated”.