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A Cape Town community is still in shock after a matric student was gunned down hours before his results were due.
While many families celebrate their children’s matric results on Friday, the family of Wakeel Dreyer, 18, of Beacon Hill High School, who was shot 17 times in Mitchells Plain on Thursday, is preparing for his burial.
The incident occurred in Palestinia Street at a local tuck shop. Warrant Officer Joseph Swartbooi, a spokesperson for the provincial police, confirmed the shooting in Eastridge.
“Mitchells Plain police members attended a complaint on Thursday, January 19.
“Upon arrival at the address in Palestina Street at around 4.35pm, they found the body of an 18-year-old male who sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his body.
“The victim was declared deceased on the scene by the medical personnel. The unknown suspects fled the scene and are yet to be arrested.
“The motive for the attack is yet to be determined,” Swartbooi said.
He asserted that police are looking into a murder case. Dreyer’s mother, Lucinda Roberts, said that she was devastated that her only child had been killed in such a cruel manner.
She told the News24 that when she heard the news, she rushed to the scene, but his body had already been covered.
The grieving mother said her son was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
She also demanded that the perpetrators of her son’s death face justice.
Roberts said that she and her son had planned an entire day around the release of her son’s matric results. It would also have been his high school graduation speech.
Dreyer has been described as a caring young man who knew how to make others happy.
Police are urging anyone with information about the shooting to contact them.