Africa-Press – South-Africa. A grief-stricken Cape Town mom is struggling to come to terms with the death of her teenage son who was gunned down a day before he would have received his matric results.
Wakeel Dreyer was shot 17 times on 19 January – a day before he was due to get his results at Beacon Hill High School in Mitchells Plain.
Dreyer was at a local tuck shop when gunmen got out of a car and opened fire on the teen.
A community activist in the area said it was a gang-related shooting.
But, three months later, his distraught mother, Lucinda Roberts, believes her son died in vain.
She said:
“I still cannot believe they shot him so many times. It’s been more than three months now, and we are still struggling to accept that he will never walk through the doors of our house again.”
Roberts longs to hear him say “I love you” one more time
It’s a painful realisation for any mother, she said.
With dreams of becoming an architect, he was excited about starting a new chapter of his life after high school, she added.
“As a family, there are many days when we have emotional moments, where we literally break down in tears because we just can’t accept that he’s gone,” she said.
It was heartbreaking to know that her only child was gone forever, she said.
Mitchells Plain police have since arrested two people in connection with the murder.
Keanan Hendricks and Zane Adonis appeared in the Mitchells Plain Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
The family of the slain teen said the accused couldn’t even look them in the eye.
“I am in no position to judge the men that killed my son, but I just want to know why they shot him so many times because I just can’t accept that they killed him so violently,” Roberts said.
The family attended the court appearance on Tuesday and protested against the accused’s release on “bail”.
One of the hardest things she has had to do was sit in a courtroom and face her son’s killers.
She said:
When the case was postponed to 22 May for the men to apply for bail, she felt a sense of relief that that they would at least remain behind bars till then.
“If they get bail or not, it won’t bring my son back. They did what they did to him, and now only God can deal with them,” Roberts added.
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