Girl thrown from car: Two suspects shot dead
Paramedics declared the two suspects dead on the scene.
Two suspects believed to have been involved in the armed robbery/hijacking that took place on the morning of 31 May, in which a teenager was flung from a vehicle, were apprehended and shot dead at about 4.30am on 1 June.
Police were on patrol in Nick Toomey Road when they noticed a vehicle, a Volvo with the registration 123 BOB GP, similar to the one that was hijacked in Akasia Street. Three males were outside the vehicle busy changing a flat tyre . The police called in the registration number and found that no such registration exists. As the police approached, the suspects drew their firearms and ordered the police to lie down, and then opened fire. The police returned fire, killing two of the suspects. The third one fled the scene.
Teenage girl thrown out of moving car during hijacking
Paramedics declared the two suspects dead on the scene.
The police found two firearms in the vehicle as well as the real registration plate, SGC 003 GP, which was traced to the hijacking.
The vehicle was taken during the morning of 31 May, after the suspects tied up the family members, assaulted them and then fled with the goods they’d stolen and the victims’ 15-year-old daughter. They threw the girl from the moving vehicle in South Street. She was taken to hospital with a broken ankle.
Cases of attempted murder, possession of unlicensed firearms and possession of a hijacked motor vehicle were opened at the Roodepoort Police Station.
