The death toll in the Sea Point massacre rose to nine on Tuesday when one of the last survivors died in Groote Schuur hospital’s intensive care unit, said hospital representative Philippa Johnson.
The man had not been identified but he was believed to be Eric, who apparently ran the male brothel from a house at 7 Graham Road under the name ”Sizzlers”.
The lone survivor of the attack is a man in his 20s, who is in a stable condition in the hospital.
In the early morning attack on Monday, 10 men were tied up and shot in the head. Some of them had their throats slit. Six of the men were found dead in the house and two more died later in hospital on Monday.
The search for the killers, meanwhile, continued on Tuesday with the police keeping mum on wide-ranging speculation about the motive for the attack and the identity of those responsible. The Cape Times on Tuesday quoted a senior Gauteng police officer as saying that there were links between the Fast Guns gang in Johannesburg and Cape Flats gangs such as the Americans.
The link comes after police reported on Monday that one of the men being sought in connection with the executions sported a ”Fast Guns” tattoo on his right hand.
The Gauteng police officer was quoted as saying that through contacts, it was possible for the gang to assist in a hit in Cape Town and vice-versa.
But Western Cape police representative Captain Etienne Terblanche said the information did not come from police sources and that most of it was speculation.
”We stick with the facts and while some of it could be true I don’t want to comment on the allegations,” he said.
Terblanche said police were still looking for four white men who were seen leaving the crime scene in a white BMW.
One of the suspects has a tattoo of a curled-up snake on his upper left arm, and the words ”fast gun” tattooed on his right wrist. His hair was reddish, probably bleached, and he wore a goatee beard.
The second suspect was a thin man with a fair complexion who had a habit of sniffing. The third suspect was tall and well-built with a shaven head and was possibly a body builder while the fourth was also described as well-built.
Terblanche said not all the victims of Monday morning’s massacre had yet been identified. Many of them victims used aliases. ”We are still trying to trace relatives and friends of the victims and the public who may be able to identify some of the dead are asked to telephone the police at the Cape Town numbers 430-3733, 935-9602 and 082-850-9674,” he said.
Outside the house on Tuesday morning, everything appeared quiet. Apart from a few passersby who stared at the house there was no activity. Five policemen guarded the house, some drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes and reading the newspaper.
”We can’t tell you anything,” one of them told a journalist.
Bunches of flowers were jammed into the picket fence of the house. Some contained sealed envelopes.
One envelope simply had the words ”Fanie en Max en vriende” while another said: ”Ons inige (sic) meegevoel” (Our deepest sympathies). – Sapa