A seven-year-old Cape Town girl has been shot in her home in Kalksteenfontein just as she was about to settle down to supper. She was shot when gangsters on the rampage barged into her home and began firing at one another.
Chante Martin was hit in the arm and back while still standing at the supper table inside her Hydrangea Street home. The seven-year-old Kalksteenfontein Primary School pupil had just lifted her plate of food when two gangsters ran into the house shop that forms part of her house. The two men were trying to find cover from gangsters chasing them. Little Chante was so frightened she immediately ran to a neighbour's house and had no idea she had been hit.
Family friend Patrina Januarie said she saw blood streaming from the girl's arm and quickly called the police. "I saw her running next door and when I got to her, I saw blood on her arm. When I went closer, I saw that she was shot. She was crying, all the kids in the house were crying," she said."This is not the first time that a child got injured in crossfire. A few years ago a 10-year-old child died and another child was injured in a similar incident," said Januarie.
Police rushed Chante to Tygerberg Hospital where she was treated at the emergency unit. The little girl was released on Wednesday afternoon but was still clearly shaken. Bishop Lavis police spokeswoman Captain Marie Louw said cops responding to the scene were fired on by two suspects. "Two suspects were caught and police are investigating two cases of attempted murder," Louw said.
Source: IoL
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