PHOTOS: Keenan Sheldon Ebrahim, identified as the Fast Guns leader who was shot dead and killed by rival gang in Westbury

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Keenan Sheldon Ebrahim, identified as the Fast Guns leader who was shot dead and killed by rival gang in Westbury.

Another teenager has been shot and killed in Westbury, west of Johannesburg.

This brings to 9 the total number of people who have been shot and killed in the area in the last two weeks as gang violence flares up.

The latest shooting comes after Fast Guns boss, Keenan Sheldon Ebrahim, was killed last Thursday in the Florida area of Roodepoort.

Now, residents fear they may be caught in the crossfire of retaliation attacks and want more police deployed.

Commenting on the shooting in Florida on Thursday, police spokesperson, Colonel Mavela Masondo, said the occupants of a silver Jetta 6 fired shots at a white Mercedez-Benz.

The driver of the Mercedes-Benz lost control of the vehicle and hit a pavement.

"Paramedics were called to the scene and took the victim to the nearest medical care centre, where he was declared dead," Masondo said.

He said the motive for the killing was under investigation. In October 2019, Ebrahim was tried for the murder of 20-year-old Bradley Sauls. He and nine co-accused appeared in the Gauteng High Court, sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court. Two police officers, Warrant Officer Wynand Steyn and Sergeant Tom Keet appeared alongside them. 

They faced a string of charges, including murder, attempted murder, corrupt activity relating to a public officer, defeating the ends of justice, possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, intimidation, and aiding and abetting criminal activities.

Sauls was not a gang member. It is alleged he killed Royce Marco Palmer, a Fast Guns member, at Newclare Primary School in Westbury on 24 July 2018.