Two dom skelms who tried to pull off a cash-in-transit heist ended up in
hospital after being shot stukkend by police on Tuesday.
The dramatic robbery, in which a G4S security guard was klapped with a gun, played out at Parow Centre Shopping Mall and led to a high-speed car chase to Crossroads where the diewe opened fire on the SAPS Flying Squad.
Ronald Pillai, the security manager at Parow Centre, says shortly after 12pm, a guard who had just collected a cash box from a store inside the mall came under attack by the robbers.
TARGET: Security guard was klapped as skelms robbed Parow Centre. File photo
“It happened at 12.27pm at the undercover parking area. As the guard was coming out, they attacked him,” he explains.
“They hit him in the face with a gun and stole the cash box.
“Shots were fired in the parking area, but nobody was injured.
“I was in the control room and immediately called the police and told them the skelms were driving a white VW Polo as they escaped.”
Checkers confirms the guard was robbed after collecting the cash box at their store.
The robbers put the cash box on the backseat of the Polo and fled the scene, but wakker cops were right behind them and chased them to Crossroads where a large contingent of police cars and army tanks cornered them.
FOUND: Money box was stolen. Picture supplied
The desperate diewe tried to shoot their way out, but cops returned fire, hitting them multiple times and forcing them to surrender.
National police spokesperson, Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo, confirms the incident: “There was an exchange of gunfire in the parking area where the suspects took a cash box and stole the guard’s firearm.
“The Flying Squad was alerted and chased the suspects where they subsequently opened fire.
“Officers returned fire and injured the two men in the process.
HET JOU!: The mall robber
“They have been taken to hospital under police guard after being shot multiple times and, once recovered, they will face charges of armed robbery, attempted murder and possession of a suspected stolen vehicle.
“The cash box was recovered.”
HIGH-SPEED CHASE: Suspects flee in Polo.