The morning school run erupted into chaos in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town on Monday when a parent was shot dead outside a high school and, in an unrelated shooting, a taxi driver was killed near a primary school a few metres away.<\/p>\n
Gilianno Smith, 34, was on his way to meet the principal of Cedar Secondary School, where his son is in Grade 8, at about 7.50am when he was shot several times, allegedly by gunmen in a passing vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is believed that the deceased was standing on the street corner when unidentified suspects in a Toyota Quantum fired several shots fatally wounding the deceased,\u201d police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk said.<\/p>\n
Smith\u2019s death and the subsequent shooting of a taxi driver near Spine View Primary at about 8.30am have left pupils and parents traumatised.<\/p>\n
Van Wyk said the taxi driver is believed to have stopped his minibus in Spine Road to pick up commuters when he was shot by an unidentified suspect.<\/p>\n
Smith\u2019s distraught mother, Veronica Smith, said he had been on his way to Cedar Secondary to meet the principal, David Charles, when the shooting occurred.<\/p>\n
Mother\u2019s Day was the last time she spoke to her son.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very, very sad. He made me a card (for Mother\u2019s Day) because he believed a bought one wouldn\u2019t express the words he wanted to say to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said her grandson had walked ahead of his father and arrived at the school unaware of his father\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
Source: IOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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