SAPS Investigating After 3 Men Killed in Shooting in Hout Bay

SAPS Investigating After 3 Men Killed in Shooting in Hout Bay

  • The South African Police Service is investigating a triple murder that took place in the Western Cape in the early hours of the morning
  • Three men were shot and killed in Hout Bay in Cape Town, and the police found their bodies in a vehicle
  • The vehicle was riddled with bullets, and the cause of death is not known, but the police suspect it is linked to organized crime

Tebogo Mokwena, Briefly News’ Deputy Head of the Current Affairs desk, South Africa, covered a range of criminal activities, including cash-in-transit heists, kidnappings, taxi violence, police investigations, police shootouts, and court cases at Daily Sun for over three years.

Three men were shot and killed in Hout Bay, Western Cape
Three people were killed in Cape Town. Image: Lerexis
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HOUT BAY, CAPE TOWN — The bodies of three men were found in Hout Bay, Cape Town, on 15 October 2025.

According to eNCA, the South African Police Service is investigating a triple murder that took place in Hout Bay. The bodies of the three men were found with gunshot wounds in a silver Hyundai i20 in Imizamo Yethu.

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The motive is not known. However, the police are not ruling out the possibility that the deaths are linked to an extortion racket.

This is a developing story.

Source: Briefly News

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Tebogo Mokwena (Current Affairs editor) Tebogo Mokwena is the Deputy Head of the Current Affairs desk and a current affairs writer at Briefly News. With a Diploma in Journalism from ALISON, he has a strong background in digital journalism, having completed training with the Google News Initiative. He began his career as a journalist at Daily Sun, where he worked for four years before becoming a sub-editor and journalist at Capricorn Post. He then joined Vutivi Business News in 2020 before moving to Briefly News in 2023.