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Cape Town gang boss Rashied Staggie shot dead

───   07:27 Sat, 14 Dec 2019

Cape Town gang boss Rashied Staggie shot dead | News Article

Cape Town gang boss Rashied Staggie was shot dead in his car in London Road, Salt River, on Friday morning, and his son Abdullah Boonzaaier was gunned down in Tafelsig on the Cape Flats a few hours later.


The founding leader of the Hard Livings gang was allegedly targeted by two gunmen who fired several shots in his direction while he was seated in the passenger seat of a car. He sustained multiple gunshots to his head. Staggie, 58, died on arrival at nearby Groote Schuur Hospital. 

“Information at the disposal of the police indicates that the deceased was sitting in his vehicle when two unknown suspects emerged, fired several shots at him and fled on foot,” police spokesperson, Brigadier Novela Potelwa said.

Potelwa said the shooting happened around 10.30 am.

Reliable sources confirmed that Boonzaaier was killed a few hours later in Tafelsig, in Mitchell's Plain. Photographs of his bloodied corpse were circulating on social media.

Potelwa said police stations in Mitchell's Plain had no record of the murder yet.

Staggie was gunned down on the same street where his twin brother Rashaad was shot and set alight in 1996 when members of the vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs descended on the Hard Livings' Salt River stronghold.

On Friday, photographs from the crime scene showed 11 bullet holes through the front window of the car in which Staggie was sitting, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, when he was fatally wounded.  

Video footage from the shooting reportedly shows the hitmen leaving London Road on foot. Woodstock police have reinforced deployment in and around the Salt River area. It is understood that reinforcements have been poured into Mitchell's Plain as well.

Staggie's murder followed that of fellow Hard Livings leader Ballie Tips in Mitchell's Plain on Thursday evening. He was gunned down in the suburb's Westridge area, and Staggie was seen visiting the scene of the murder on De Duin Road.

Staggie was released from prison on parole in 2013 after serving 11 years for kidnapping, rape and stealing firearms from a police armoury. He claimed to have reformed himself and to be earning a living as a motivational speaker. 


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