WC top cop says detectives hunting down more suspects involved in deadly Mitchells Plain shootings
Fourteen suspects have since been arrested for murder and attempted murder, and seven are behind bars for being caught with illegal guns in Mitchells Plain.
FILE: Western Cape Provincial Police Commissioner Lt-Gen Thembisile Patekile. Picture: Ntuthuzelo Nene/EWN.
CAPE TOWN - Western Cape Police Commissioner Thembesile Patekile said that detectives were hunting down more suspects related to the shootings in Mitchells Plain which left five people dead.
Fourteen suspects have since been arrested for murder and attempted murder, and seven are behind bars for being caught with illegal guns in Mitchells Plain.
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The arrests were made after five people were killed and seven others injured in gang-related shootings in the area on Thursday.
Patekile, who was in Mitchells Plain on Friday, said that police know who they are looking for.
"The people who started the fight are gang leaders from different gangs, one with the other gang, the other with the opposing gang. So, we're starting from there. Those are the people that we know. Then from there, we go to the ones who are the actual shooters."