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Dylan tells of his heroic act to save his father

Comet resident, Dylan Burger (17), says that he was getting ready for school when he saw two men trying to hijack his father.

On February 13, Dylan’s father, Deon, was hijacked and shot in Comet.

“I heard the vehicle’s hooter and broke our lounge window to get to my dad.”

He says that he had a baseball bat with him and when the two men saw him, they ran, with Dylan chasing after them.

“I hit one of the men over the head and that is when the shots went off. They told me there were four shots fired, but I can only remember two.”

Dylan was shot in the leg.

Deon’s wife, Magda, says that when she saw what was going on, she pressed the panic button for their security company.

“When I went outside my son was in the park, and my husband was lying in our driveway.”

She adds that one of the suspects had escaped into a neighbour’s garden and the neighbour caught the suspect and brought him to the scene.

“Our neighbours have been very helpful to us during this time, with one of our neighbours helping to repair our broken window.”

On Thursday, February 20, the doctors at the Union Hospital started waking Deon up from his sedation.

“They have had to remove three quarters of his lung, but we, and our neighbours, are praying for my husband,” Magda says.

She adds that both her son and she are receiving trauma counselling.

The two suspects appeared in the Boksburg Magistrates Court on Friday, where they applied for bail.

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