Despite the SAPS’ refusal to identify the man killed in Bryanston on last week, known private investigator Chad Thomas said the deceased was the same man who had survived a shooting in Bedfordview in 2017.
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Gauteng SAPS provincial spokesperson Capt Mavela Masondo told the NEWS the SAPS cannot provide the identity of the 59-year-old deceased despite other media reports identifying him as the same man who had survived the 2017 Bedfordview shooting. He said the next of kin had been notified.
The NEWS reported in September 2017 that Ivan Djordjevic, a Bryanston resident, was shot four times in the parking area of KFC Bedfordview.
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“Following the failed hit in Bedfordview in 2017, Djordjevic was a dead man walking,” organised crime investigator Chad Thomas, from IRS Forensic Investigations, told the NEWS last week.
“It was only a matter of time until the hit men tried again. What is of concern is that this spate of killings is far from over and one must be concerned about an escalation in terms of retaliatory hits,” said Thomas.
In an exclusive interview with the NEWS in 2018, Thomas said that the murder of George Mihaljevic last year and the 2017 shooting were part of several incidents connected to a “low-intensity war between rival Eastern European groups”.
Read the full interview with Chad Thomas in this week’s edition of Bedfordview and Edenvale News.
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