Cops are investigating a murder of a woman who was shot inside a car in Hanover Park.
Shumeez Ismail, 21, from Ottery, was visiting her friends on Saturday and the next time her family saw her she had two gunshot wounds in her stomach.
Her body was found in the backseat of a grey Ford Escort.
A relative on the scene told the Daily Voice that they were informed that the shooting occurred around 5am on Sunday.
“We don’t know what happened to her but I suspect that somebody wanted something and she didn’t want to give it,” he explains.
“She left Ottery on Saturday afternoon to visit her friends and then we received a call that said that she left this earth.
“She leaves behind her mother and baby brother.”
He says Shumeez was shot twice and no one heard or saw anything.
“The bullets struck her in the stomach and you could tell that she was not shot from outside, she was shot by someone who was sitting in the car with her.
“She could never have a physical fight with anyone, she was very small,” the devastated man says.
“No one knows who shot her, no one went out to look when the gunshots went off. “Somebody knows but they are scared of whoever. This should have been stopped, even her friends who she came to visit are nowhere to be found.”
SAPS spokesperson Colonel André Traut says they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
“At around 5.30am yesterday, a 21-year-old female was shot and killed in Johndown Walk Hanover Park while she was sitting in the back of a vehicle.
“The suspect fled the scene and is yet to be arrested. The circumstances are being investigated.”