Constable Matome Tlamela, head of communications at the station said the 32-year-old man said he had been driving out of his driveway on Barbet Street when two men approached his silver grey BMW 3 series. They were both armed. They instructed him to open the driver’s side door of his car. When the man resisted he was hit with a firearm on his right eye.
Tlamela said the complainant described how after opening the car door the two men dragged him out of his car and to the front door of his house. They forced him to open the door to the lounge. Once inside the house the suspects ransacked his home. They found a laptop, an undisclosed number of cellphones and a plasma television.
Tlamela said they forced entry into one of the other bedrooms where they found the man’s housemate sleeping. They woke him up and demanded cash from him. The housemate said he gave them R700 which was what was in his wallet at the time. They also took his two gold rings and a laptop.
The two shocked victims said although there was a third man in a dark grey Mercedes C Class that was presumably their getaway car, the two thieves drove off with the victim’s BMW.
Tlamela said that no arrests had yet been made. “We are hoping to make arrests soon,” she said.
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