The funeral of Faisal ul Rehman.
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On Tuesday night, hundreds of mourners gathered at a Johannesburg cemetery to pay their respects to Faisal ul Rehman, a 48-year-old father of two tragically killed in a road rage incident in Emmarentia on Sunday.
His body, wrapped in a white burial cloth and strapped into an open casket, lay at the front of the room of the Westpark Cemetery as loved ones raised their hands in prayer around him.
Some wept.
Rehman took his last breath on Sunday afternoon after a minor collision between two vehicles on Barry Hertzog Avenue escalated into a fight between the two drivers.
Hundreds gathered at Westpark Cemetery in Johannesburg to pray over Faisal ul Rehman before his body was sent to Pakistan
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Police spokesperson Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi said Rehman's wife Tehseen then retrieved a firearm, prompting the other motorist - who was also armed - to open fire.
Rehman was shot dead and Tehseen was hit in the hand and shoulder, all of it unfolding in full view of the couple's two young children.
"It is alleged that a female passenger, suspected to be the wife of one of the drivers, went to get a firearm from the car, and the second driver also pulled out his firearm, resulting in a shooting which claimed the life of the husband, leaving the other driver and the female passenger injured," Nevhuhulwi said.
Cellphone footage of the scene has been widely shared online.
Mourners pray over Faisal ul Rehman before his body was sent to Pakistan.
Image: Itumeleng English.
In it, Rehman's daughter is on the ground beside her father's body, wailing.
A stone's throw away, her little brother is pressing his bloodied hands into his father's chest, performing CPR over and over, trying to bring him back to life.
Their mother, shot and bleeding, sits slumped on the roadside nearby.
She survived and was rushed to hospital.
A 58-year-old man was arrested at the scene.
Faisal Ul Rehman was killed in a shooting incident on Sunday.
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But the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Tuesday said it had decided not to prosecute him - at least for now.
"After careful consideration of the evidence of the alleged road rage incident which occurred in Emmarentia, the NPA has decided not to prosecute the matter pending further investigation," NPA spokesperson Magaboke Mohlatole said.
The decision was a blow to the Rehman family.
Tehseen did not even know her husband was dead until Monday, more than 24 hours after the shooting.
The family had kept the news from her while she recovered, but were eventually forced to tell her because she was the only person who could decide whether Rehman would be buried in SA or sent home to Pakistan.
"She did not take it well," said Muhammad Wasi Haider, Rehman's nephew, who spoke to IOL on Tuesday.
"We had to tell her because we needed to know what to do with the deceased, whether we were sending Faisal to Pakistan, whether we were doing the burial in SA," he said.
"Only she could make the decision."
The family decided to send Rehman's body home to Pakistan.