Suspected drug-fuelled shooting spree leaves two dead in Chatsworth
The barber was threading a woman’s eyebrows when he was killed
Bayview Community Policing Forum members outside the second crime scene in Mobeni Heights
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A 32-YEAR-OLD Mobeni Heights man has been arrested after allegedly shooting a barber and his gardener in separate incidents.
Community leaders suggest the suspect may have been under the influence of drugs during the seemingly random attacks that left two dead.
The man shot dead the barber in Bayview and returned to his home, where he then shot and killed his gardener, earlier today.
Both victims were shot in their heads.
Community leaders claimed the suspect may have been “high on drugs” at the time of the killings.
“The man had gone with his friend to Summerfield Road in Bayview at around 11.30am. While his friend, who was the driver of the vehicle, was speaking to someone, he allegedly jumped off the vehicle and walked into a nearby barber shop.
The first crime scene in Bayview
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“The barber was threading a woman’s eyebrows at the time. The man then pulled out his firearm and pointed it at the barber's head and pulled the trigger. He then jumped back into the vehicle.
“The driver dropped the man off at his house on Fiona Street, where he then shot dead the gardener who was working in their yard. The gardener was also shot in his head and died at the scene,” said Brandon Pillay, chairperson of the Bayview Community Policing Forum (CPF).
He said Bayview police arrested the man at his home and they recovered a firearm, which would be sent for fingerprint analysis and ballistics testing.
“We cannot understand why he would do this. The barber does not know him. He did not go for a haircut. There are witnesses to the barber's shooting. The lady who was having her eyebrows done is traumatised.
“It is unacceptable that someone would rob innocent people of their lives. He must face the full might of the law,” Pillay added.
A community leader, who did not want to be named, said the man appeared to be highly intoxicated on drugs when the police arrived to take him in for questioning.
“We arrived at the second crime scene in Mobeni Heights shortly after the shooting. Members of the community, who were present during his arrest, claimed that he looked highly drugged.
“He gave the arresting officers a hard time when they tried to restrain him and it took five people to get him into the police vehicle,” the source said.