TWO police constables were injured after residents pelted them with stones while they were chasing a wanted gangster in Helenvale, Port Elizabeth, yesterday at 3pm.
Within hours of the incident, a 21-year-old man was wounded in a drive-by shooting nearby.
Police spokeswoman Colonel Priscilla Naidu said the two constables were taken to hospital for treatment after they were “spontaneously bombarded with stones thrown by community members” while chasing the wanted man on foot.
“The suspect managed to escape but a 25-year-old man was arrested for public violence linked to the stone throwing.”
The drive-by shooting occurred later at the corner of Borchards and Terblanche streets in Gelvandale, from a white Jetta without number plates.
The man was shot in the leg, hip and left side of his body.
Meanwhile, in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Pieter Pretorius, 25, was sentenced to 18 years in jail for shooting a man in his Bloemendal house in September.
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