Attempted murder probe after Durban boy shot by police
Last week, a 15-year-old Kenville boy was shot in the back, allegedly by police who had mistaken him for a robber.
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate’s Moses Dlamini says an attempted murder case has been registered.
He says his offices have been in touch with the family and will be investigating the matter.
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Meanwhile, the boy - whose identity is known to Newswatch but is being withheld because he is a minor - is in hospital, trying to come to terms with the fact that he will likely never walk again.
His brother says the boy was on his way to visit their sister on Friday night when he was assailed by a group of men in a van.
Unaware that they were police - and terrified - he says his brother tried to run.
“He didn’t realise it was a police van. He tried to run away because he was afraid. He didn’t know what to do, he thought that these people were trying to kidnap him because there were no police lights or sirens”.
He says as his brother ran, the police opened fire on him.
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He was hit in the back.
“My mother phoned to tell me. I wasn’t home at the time,” he says.
He says his brother once dreamed of becoming a policeman but that that dream - along with many of his favourite past times - are simply out of reach now.
“He can talk and he can eat but the doctors say that he won’t be able to walk. He’s lost a kidney,” he says, “He used to play soccer and box but that’s over now”.