Former Big Brother housemate and security specialist "Bad Brad" Wood has helped police arrest robbers after a shootout that left one robber dead, another injured and a policeman shot in the arm.
Gunshots ripped across Louis Botha Avenue in Orange Grove at noon on Wednesday after three robbers attacked a supermarket just as a patrolling police car drove by and spotted them. The main road was cordoned off.
"I pulled in and heard a whole commotion going on. There were a lot of taxis and people running around and I saw a policeman get shot," said Wood, who happened to be driving to a venue nearby.
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One robber tried to leave the shop and was shot in the doorway, where he died.
| 'It was six shots and now I am minus my gun' |
Wood said he joined up with an inspector and a constable, and together they entered the supermarket, where they found two suspects hiding in the roof.
Wood said he climbed into the roof and managed to get the suspects down, and they were arrested on the scene - one of them having sustained a flesh wound to his buttocks.
Asked whether he had shot anyone, Wood declined to comment, on advice of his lawyer, but said that his gun had been taken in by the police for ballistics testing.
"I am not saying anything about shooting anyone - but I can tell you that I double tapped (shot at) the first suspect, I double tapped the second guy and then I did a bit of cover fire in the roof. So all in all, it was six shots and now I am minus my gun," Wood said.
Captain Phillip Maganedisa of Norwood police said the robbers had entered the supermarket at noon and closed the doors. At the same time a patrol car drove past, and one of the robbers fired shots at police.
| 'One member was shot in the left arm' |
"One member was shot in the left arm," Magadenisa said.
He said police returned fire and one robber was shot dead. One of the robbers managed to flee, but was chased down after he was shot in the chest.
Provincial police spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman said one suspect was shot dead, one was injured and a third was arrested in the supermarket.
Wood, however, maintains that two were arrested and that there were four robbers rather than three.
Opperman was not aware of Wood's involvement.
- This article was originally published on page 2 of The Star on March 12, 2009
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