'People are at breaking point': Community mourns after girl killed

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'People are at breaking point': Community mourns after girl killed
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“It's hard to remember that she's not here any more.”

“I pretended to check her vital signs but I could see she was dead. I don't know what sort of bullet hit her, but her little body was ripped open. She was lying on her stomach and her head was looking to the left. Her eyes were wide open and dilated,” she said.Her grandfather Ronald Solomons said the community had reached a point beyond the threshold of what they could handle. He said there were too few police officers and too few vehicles.

“They are constantly shooting, especially when it's load-shedding. The people are walking openly in the streets with guns. There's a shortage of cops and a shortage of vehicles. The willingness to catch people just isn't there,” said Franke.

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