A MAN is behind bars after allegedly shooting and killing a 57-year-old grandmother and injuring her four-year-old grandson as they were driving in Lily of the Valley last week.

THE murder rate has skyrocketed 150 per cent compared to last year as the country grapples with one of its deadliest ever starts to a year.

Two women aged 23 and 24-years-old are in hospital after a shooting incident off Wulff Road early on Thursday.

According to reports, at around 1.30am, the women were inside a vehicle on Rosedale Street, when a man known to them fired multiple gunshots into the vehicle, which resulted in both of them being shot. The women were able to drive themselves to the Wulff Road Police Station where Emergency Medical Technicians collected them and transported them to hospital. They both remain in stable condition. Police are investigating and actively in search of the suspect responsible for the incident.

According to reports, at around 1.30am, the women were inside a vehicle on Rosedale Street, when a man known to them fired multiple gunshots into the vehicle, which resulted in both of them being shot.

The women were able to drive themselves to the Wulff Road Police Station where Emergency Medical Technicians collected them and transported them to hospital. They both remain in stable condition.

Police are investigating and actively in search of the suspect responsible for the incident.

 

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