Two people were shoot dead at the Booysens Magistrates’ Court, 20 January 2026. it is alleged that five people were shot, with two fatalities. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/ The Citizen Five people were shot at the Booysens Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
Two of the victims have been confirmed dead, while three were injured in the shooting. The shooting occurred while a group was attending a court case. According to the South African Police Service (Saps) spokesperson, Brigadier Brenda Muridili, the attack was carried out by three assailants who targeted the group without warning.
“There’s about three shooters that came and randomly shot at them. And as they were shooting, this resulted in two of the victims being dead on the scene and three were taken to hospital for medical treatment,” she said. Muridili confirmed that one of the injured victims has been identified as the lawyer representing the accused in a case being heard on Tuesday.
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The accused was appearing on charges of murder and attempted murder from a 2025 case that occurred in Mondeor, in the south of Johannesburg. The suspects escaped on foot before being picked up by a white Audi that investigators identified as a cloned vehicle. Muridili explained that cloning refers to a duplicate vehicle, stating: “The original vehicle, as they were looking on the system, is a vehicle that currently is parked as a vehicle that is broken.” This means that the Audi that was seen fleeing the scene had number plates duplicated from the parked vehicle.
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