A 6-year-old boy was on Wednesday shot with
a stray bullet in his arm while he was walking with his parents to school in Elsies River
The boy did not sustain major injuries and
police believe this was a gang-shooting incident as the 6-year-old also had a
17-year-old with him and police believe the bullet was meant for him.
A 27-year-old suspect has been arrested in
connection with the shooting. The
Western Cape Education Department said this incident did not take place on
school grounds.
Ministerial Spokesperson Bronagh Casey said
the department can do all it can to protect learners while at school but
incidents like this, whereby something happens within the community we need to
relay on the police and the justice system to help us to ensure it keeps us
safe.
“We do our won interventions in schools
such as security interventions as well as counselling support as well as
relationships with various organisations and community policing forums” Casey
added.
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