Pete Mihalik Prominent defence advocate has been shot dead outside a school in Cape Town, which has now been placed on lockdown.
The incident happened outside the Reddam House School on Tuesday morning as Mihalik was dropping off his son.
It’s understood the boy was wounded in the incident.
Police have confirmed Mihalik was shot but are yet to release any more details.
Police’s
Noloyiso Rwexana says: “Detectives of the Armed Gang Unit and SAPS
Crime Scene experts are combing the scene for clues following a shooting
incident that occurred outside in Green Point this morning. The suspect
was seen by the witnesses fleeing the scene in a metallic grey VW
Polo.”
Mihalik was a well-known figure at the Cape Town bar, an
advocate who specialised in defending clients with alleged links to the
criminal underworld as well as high-profile gangsters.
His client
list read like a who’s who of alleged gangsters including 28’s gang boss
Ralph Stanfield, Irshaad Laher – the alleged leader of a gun peddling
ring – and Colin Booysen, brother of alleged Sexy Boys Gang Boss Jerome
‘Donkie’ Booysen.
Police have confirmed the gang unit is investigating the brazen, broad daylight drive-by shooting that claimed Mihalik’s life.
Mihalik
was also involved in a high-profile murder case earlier this year
defending alleged wife killer Jason Rohde but he withdrew from that case
when Rohde was unable to pay his legal bills.
The advocate’s associate Noorudien Hassan was also gunned down at his home in Landsdown in 2016.
Mihalik’s wife committed suicide that same year.
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