According to the Gauteng police, an incident occurred on Wednesday night in Honeydew, Johannesburg, where Kaizer Chiefs football player Luke Fleurs met an untimely death during a hijacking.
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News24 reported that police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo gave an account of the event, in which Fleurs made a routine stop at a petrol station situated at the intersection of 14th Avenue and Hendrik Potgieter Drive.
At the petrol station, assailants accosted Fleurs at gunpoint, compelled him to get out of his car, a red VW Golf 8 GTI, and shot him in the upper body. One of the perpetrators subsequently took Fleurs’ car, while the other followed in a BMW.
No arrests have been made yet.
Among messages of grief and support on social media, Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Zizi Kodwa expressed his condolences to the Fleurs family.
I am saddened by the passing of @KaizerChiefs defender and former junior international Luke Fleurs. I am saddened that yet another life has been cut short due to violent crime. My thoughts are with the Fleurs and Amakhosi family, and the entire South African football fraternity. pic.twitter.com/h7XFpZFNS6
— Minister of Sport, Arts & Culture (@zizikodwa) April 4, 2024
Western Cape Cultural Affairs and Sport MEC Anroux Marais also shared her grief at the loss of the Cape Town-born football player on her Facebook account:
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