8-year-old child killed in shooting incident in Midrand
A young boy was shot and killed while he was seated in a car with his mother and a young girl.
A primary school learner has been killed in a tragic shooting incident on the R101 and Le Roux Avenue yesterday afternoon.
A Midrand Reporter journalist at the scene at approximately 17:00 said authorities cornered off the scene.
According Midrand Police Station’s Colonel Andre de Klerk, the boy was about eight years old.
De Klerk said the incident happened just before 15:00.
He said the boy was in the car with his mother and a young girl. The mother was shot multiple times and has been taken to the nearest hospital. The young girl was unharmed.
“We have found about five bullets [at the scene]. The mother is in her late 30s. That’s all that [the information we] have at the moment.”
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