One injured in Witkoppen shootout

UPDATE: July 31, 10.30am:

According to Colonel Lungile Dlamini, spokesperson for the Gauteng provincial police, Douglasdale police are currently investigating the shooting incident that took place in the early hours of the morning.

Randburg police allege that they observed a vehicle’s occupants behaving suspiciously in Randburg, and when they tried to stop the care, it sped off. They said the occupants fired shots with police returning fire on Main Road.

The number of occupants in the car remains unknown. However, the driver of the vehicle was wounded in the shootout and rushed to hospital for treatment.

Colonel Dlamini said that on further investigation it was established that the vehicle, which was a Honda Jazz, had not been been reported as stolen and belonged to a vehicle dealership company.

Police members were uninjured during the shootout, and no firearms were found in the vehicle. The circumstances leading to the shootout are being investigated. The Independent Police Investigative Directorate was also called to the scene. On Fourways Review’s Facebook page and website, Fourways residents reported hearing 20 to 30 gunshots at around 3:30am.

July 31, 7.30am:

A suspicious driver was shot down by Randburg police on the morning of 31 July on Main Road just before Witkoppen Road in Lonehill.

The driver reportedly hijacked a vehicle in Randburg. Police then gave chase, down Witkoppen Road and fired shots at the vehicle. The vehicle then crashed into the fence of a business property on the corner of Main and Witkoppen Road.

According to police officers on-scene the suspicious vehicle was a silver Honda Civic.

The driver was wounded during the shootout and has been taken to a nearby hospital.

Fourways Review news editor, Daniella Potter is reporting from the scene and said that traffic cones in the left lane are forcing cars into the right lane on Witkoppen Road which is causing traffic to build-up.

By 7am the usual morning traffic on Witkoppen Road had resumed.