Metro police will be deployed outside Gauteng schools experiencing high crime rates during drop-off and collection periods.
This plan has been announced by MEC for Community Safety SizakeleNkosi-Malobane following a shoot-out this week at the Edenvale High School in which two armed suspects were killed by police.
In security footage made exclusively available to eNCA, a group of armed men is seen arriving at Edenvale High school and making their getaway while exchanging gunfire with police.
Shortly after the men drove onto the premises, claiming to be parents of pupils attending the school, they held up staff and stole R8,000.
Gauteng police spokesperson Captain Kay Makhubele explained how the robbers gained access to the school.
“It is alleged that one suspect came to the school and informed security guards that he had come to pick up a pupil.
“While security guards were opening for him, more armed suspects entered, driving a van. It is alleged that the suspects proceeded to the offices where they held the principal at gunpoint and robbed him of an undisclosed amount of cash.”he said
Police were alerted to the crime and confronted the group as they attempted to escape, resulting in a shootout.
The security footage shows a man sustaining a gunshot wound while trying to flee the scene.
Two men were killed during the shooting while one was wounded.
Five of the suspected robbers were arrested, among them an Uber driver who claims to have been hijacked.
They appeared before the Germiston Magistrates Court on a litany of charges, including business robbery, possession of unlawful firearms, and attempted murder.
Police spokesperson Kay Makhubela asserted the strength of their case, “we will present the evidence before the court. We have a strong case against all the suspects who were involved in the Edenvale High shooting.”he concluded.
