A woman will have to undergo an emergency brain operation on 14 May 2014, after she and her boyfriend were shot at, allegedly by police officers, in Westmead, Pinetown.
THREE police officers have been charged for attempted murder after they allegedly fired shots at a young couple in Westmead, Pinetown between 8am and 8.30am on 14 May 2014.
According to Mergan Govender (23) he was parked in his green Toyota Conquest at his girlfriend, Sherian Naidoo’s work place in Swanfield Road in Westmead, when he heard gun shots from a nearby robbery. His immediate reaction was to get away to a safer place.
“As I drove away, someone jumped in front of my car and I think I knocked him but I drove off. When I reached a safer place on Alexander Road, a marked police vehicle from Pinetown SAPS drove up next to me and open fired on my car. Both my girlfriend and I jumped out of the car and shouted that it’s not us, we’re innocent, but they still fired at us,” said Govender.
During the shootout, between nine to 15 shots were fired injuring Naidoo (18). ER24 arrived at the scene and attended to Naidoo before transporting her to Life Chatsmed Garden Hospital.
Govender said as he was taking photos of his car at the scene, the policeman grabbed his hand, twisted his arm, pulled his Blackberry 9320 from his hand and began to delete the images from his phone.
Fortunately, a relative who witnessed the incident, was close by and he was able to photograph the car with his cellphone.
“More policemen arrived at the scene and barricaded the car with police tape. The officers who fired the shots began to pick up the bullet shells from the floor. When the other officers questioned me, the three policemen initially denied opening fire at us, until the officers found a single bullet shell, which they barricaded as well. I was arrested at the scene and taken to the Pinetown police station without being told what I was being charged for,” said Govender…
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