A community worker from Hanover Park has been hospitalised after heartless skollies opened fire on women and children in Donegal Court on Sunday.
Residents say they ran for their lives as they tried to escape the hail of bullets shortly after 11am and got a skrik when they realised Mary Bruce, 48, had been shot.
The mom of three and founder of the What About Children Dream Organisation was shot behind her council flat while hanging washing.
Mary’s husband Eldino Bruce. Picture: Monique Duval
Her heartbroken husband, Eldino, 47, explains: “The children went to church and she told me to move the bakkie so she can hang the washing on the school fence. It was a bietjie damp and she wanted to put it in the sun.
“I was talking to a neighbour and they started shooting and then I heard someone shout: ‘Aunty Mary is geskiet’.
“I ran to the back and the whole community came out. There was blood everywhere.
“The bullet hit her in the left boudjie (thigh) and her leg twisted as she fell.”
He says Mary is being treated at Groote Schuur Hospital, where doctors are set to remove the bullet from her leg.
“They told us it is serious,” says Eldino.
During the shooting, another 22-year-old mom was hit while trying to protect her three-year-old daughter.
The young woman tells the Daily Voice: “I was sitting on the stairs and saw two of them (skollies) and the shooting started.
“I went to the back to protect my child and they shot me in the leg.”
An hour later gunshots rang out near Como Court and another woman was hit in the legs by stray bullets.
Police spokesperson, Captain FC van Wyk, confirms cases of attempted murder are being investigated.
monique.duval@inl.co.za