A Grassy Park family is grieving after a dad of seven was gunned down on his way home from work on Saturday.
Fahmy Gamieldien, 45, was shot in Lake Road, metres from his home, and died on the back of a bakkie while his family was trying to rush him to hospital.
His hartseer wife Faldiela, 52, says her husband of 25 years worked hard every day, selling fruit door-to-door in Grassy Park to provide for his family.
Their son Riedewaan, 19, who was at the back of the bakkie, has been left traumatised after his father died in his arms.
Faldiela says on Saturday shortly before 7pm, Fahmy was walking home when a gunman in a Ford Bantam bakkie stopped and opened fire on him.
“The person shot him seven times and my son ran to him,” she says.
“He picked up his daddy and put him on the back of a bakkie and said he is not going to wait for an ambulance. He was rushed to Victoria Hospital but when they got there, he died already in the back of the bakkie.”
Grassy Park station commander Colonel Dawood Laing confirms the shooting and says police are now investigating a murder case.
“The victim is a 45-year-old male who died after being shot multiple times. According to our records, the matter was not gang-related and the motive for the murder is unknown at this stage.”
Fahmy’s janaazah was held on Sunday and he was laid to rest in Constantia.
When the Daily Voice visited his home on Monday, several people came to commiserate with his grieving family, and said he was a friendly man.
Faldiela says: “He didn’t have many friends but so many people came out for his janaazah.
“People would come to him with a R5 and ask boeta, what can we get and when he saw someone was sukkeling, he would give it for free to help them. When the police came here, I told them I put it in Allah’s hands.
“He wasn’t a gangster, he was a loving husband and a working father and he never had tjappies. It’s very sad because they say you die like you live, but he never lived like that. It’s not right.”