Vista: SA Police Ignore White Crime Victims: Matthew Oosterloo, 19 shot in hip by home-attackers: cops 4 weeks before taking his statement
Report by Marti Will of Vista News: 2014-07-24 Vista: Western Cape, South Africa: Attack-victim Matthew Oosterloo: "It took the police four weeks after I was shot in my hip during a home invasion to come to me and take my statement.
“If they had come to me sooner I would have been able to give them at least one identikit. Now it is all very vague.”
Vista has now spoken to Matthew Oosterloo (19), the gun-shot victim.
What was to have been a fun evening with friends playing pool, chess and watching soccer together, turned into a nightmare for them and a close shave with death for one young Welkom boy.
Last week Vista reported about the incident in which seven youths were accosted inside a home in Vista by three armed (*black) men.
“I was playing pool and facing the lounge door when I saw a man with a gun enter. I moved away towards the kitchen and tried to gesture to the others about the man.
“Then I saw a second man in the kitchen. I lunged at him with the pool stick. It broke.
“That was when a third man came into the kitchen with a gun. He aimed it at me, looked away and then he pulled the trigger.
“At that moment I instinctively started turning away,” says Matthew. “The bullet hit me and I went down. The man who was in the lounge with my friends rushed into the kitchen and then they all three ran away.
“Only when the perpetrators had gone, I stood up. I felt pain and I saw the blood. I realised that I had been shot.”
HIS FRIENDS WERE FORCED TO LIE DOWN 'TO BE EXECUTED'...
Matthew says he only found out much later that the man who was in the lounge with his friends had made them lie down
execution style. “It was all so weird and surreal. Who knows what would have happened if I had not caused a commotion and been shot. I give all praise to God for keeping us safe. God protects the righteous,” he says.
-- Matthew says that when they did a CT scan of his wound in hospital, they told him how lucky he had been.
“If I had not turned when the man pulled the trigger, the bullet would have struck my kidneys, liver, spleen, my vital organs. God is truly good.
GANG INITIATION RITE: ATTACKING AND SHOOTING WHITES:
“We are convinced it was a type of gang initiation, you know the rape, rob and murder scenario. If they had tried to rape one of the girls we would all have fought tooth and nail. That would have ended in someone dying for sure. Nothing was taken and nothing else happened. They just ran away after I was shot,” says Matthew.
Capt. Stephen Thakeng, Welkom SAPS Communications, says a case of attempted murder has been "registered for further
investigation." Detective warrant officer Elliot Khutsoane was handed the case however he went on vacation until July 22.
Khutsoane visited the hospital twice, but the victim was in no position to give a statement.”
“He will now take a statement,” says Thakeng. Three statements were also taken from 'people who were with the victim'.
“On 10 July the SAPS issued a statement announcing that a manhunt had been launched after the victim had been shot in his stomach.
“’This is part of assisting us with the investigation to look for the suspects,” says Thakeng.
He didn't explain why the crime scene was not forensically examined.
http:/www.vistanews.co.za/168634/news-details/vms-statement-taken-weeks-after-incident
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