Mass shooting in Bishop Lavis claims four lives amid rising gang violence

MYSTERY still shrouds the killing of four people including an elderly woman in a house in Bishop Lavis.

- MANDILAKHE TSHWETE

The mass killing on Friday night comes amid a deadly spate of shootings across the Cape Flats over the past two weeks, with at least five mass shootings reported in Mitchells Plain, Kraaifontein, Mfuleni, and Lower Crossroads.

Police spokesperson Malcolm Pojie confirmed that detectives from the Provincial Serious and Violent Crime Investigations and the Anti-Gang Unit have been tasked with investigating the Bishop Lavis killings. “The incident claimed the lives of four adults - two women and two men - aged between 27 and 80 years old,” Pojie said.

“Preliminary information reveals that two unknown gunmen, who fled the scene in a VW Polo, accosted the four in a bedroom, opened fire, and fatally shot the deceased, who all succumbed to gunshot wounds to their upper bodies. Bishop Lavis SAPS registered four counts of murder.”