Shootings keep Westbury residents on edge

An elderly man and a teenager are recovering in hospital after they were shot.

Gauteng Police Commissioner Elias Mawela believes they were caught in the crossfire of rival gangs.

"This elderly person was from church, just walking, innocently so, in the streets, and unfortunately they just shot randomly, he was shot at, he was taken to the nearby shop for medical attention while they are still waiting for the ambulance, and a few seconds later, was this 16-year-old who was also shot on his arm and also taken by a private person to the hospital for medical attention.

"For now we are investigating, but the information we are gathering on the ground is to say that some weeks ago, there was some clash between two groupings and somebody was stabbed, so it looks like it was a revenge, but unfortunately it happened that these two people, they were at wrong place at the wrong time," Mawela said.

"We call upon the community to continue to work with us, previously we have managed to solve this type of cases because the communities were very quick to tell us who did these things."