Riyaz Patel
Former Hard Livings gang leader Rashied Staggie was killed in a hail of bullets in the same road where his twin brother, Rashaad, died two decades ago.
“Information at the disposal of the police indicates that the deceased was sitting in his vehicle when two unknown suspects emerged, fired several shots at him and fled on foot,” Brigadier Novela Potelwa said.
In a statement Potelwa said a 58-year-old man had been shot in London Road in Salt River, Cape Town.
Staggie was not named in the statement, but the brigadier said the wounded man had died on his way to a nearby hospital.
Photographs from the scene showed a silver Toyota Yaris with a least 12 bullet holes. One bullet hole was in the bonnet of the car. Another had hit the passenger side.
Two hours after the shooting, Staggie’s daughter, Ingrid Carolus, appeared outside his home screaming: “He’s dead, he’s dead!”
The Hard Livings gang was founded in 1971 and is a large street gang and organised crime group based in Manenberg, Cape Town.
The Hard Livings is one of two ‘super gangs’ in Cape Town with the other being known as The Americans.
The gang started out as a criminal street outfit mostly involved in drug distribution, which evolved into a structured criminal organisation unit.
Staggie’s twin brother, Rashaad Staggie, was leader of the Hard Livings gang in 1996 when he was killed after being shot and burnt alive in Salt River, Cape Town – allegedly by members of the vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad).
