Three shot dead over five days in northern areas

Three people have been shot dead in Port Elizabeth’s northern areas within five days.

Bramley van Wyk, 36, was shot dead after two gunmen chased him in Second Avenue in Windvogel, near Helenvale, in the early hours of Tuesday.

Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said: “A car stopped close by to the victim and two suspects jumped out and started chasing him.

“At the time, Van Wyk had been sitting outside a house.

“During the chase, several

Van Wyk scaled a fence and hid in a yard, where the gunmen shot him multiple times at point-blank range

shots were fired by the two gunmen.”

Van Wyk scaled a fence and hid in a yard, where the gunmen shot him multiple times at point-blank range.

This came several hours after Charles Bibby, 45, was shot dead in Barberry Road, Arcadia, at 9.40am on Monday – as provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Liziwe Ntshinga was en route to the Bethelsdorp police station.

Ntshinga was visiting the family of Billy Kleinhans, 54, in Wallflower Street, Bethelsdorp, just 800m from where Bibby was killed.

Kleinhans died on Friday night when an unknown gunman shot him while he was walking through an open field in Mistletoe Street.

The Provincial Organised Crime Investigation Unit is investigating the murders of Kleinhans and Van Wyk.