Memorial underway for 12-year-old boy killed in alleged gang shooting in Cape Town

As Cape Town police search for the killers of a 12-year-old boy who was gunned down outside a mosque in Ravensmead over the weekend,  residents have gathered at his former school, at Tygersig Primary School, to host a memorial service for him.

According to EWN, the deceased has been identified as Ashwin Jones and he was found with multiple gunshot wounds.

Daily Mail UK reports that Jones was hit by twenty-two bullets from two gunmen in what is thought to have been part of a sick initiation to earn membership of a gang in the area.

The grade five pupil and a group of other youngsters in the area often guarded cars of worshippers at the Elsies River mosque and he was doing so on Friday evening just after 9 pm when he was attacked.

According to spokesperson Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana, the incident happened at 9.25pm at the corner of Arnold and Connaught Road, Eureka Estate, when the members of the apparently rival gangs opened fire at each other and caused panic among the civilians.