South African footballer Luke Fleurs has been killed during a car hijacking at a petrol station on Wednesday night in Florida, a Johannesburg suburb.
Fleurs, 24, was gunned down by unknown gunmen while waiting to be attended to. They ordered him out of the vehicle and shot him.
After this, one of the suspects fled the scene with Fleurs’ vehicle.
“The suspects pointed [at] him with a firearm and took him out of his vehicle, then shot him once on the upper body,” Gauteng police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo informed the press.
His team, Kaizer Chiefs, says the death was “tragic”. It added that police were on a hot chase against the assailants, adding that further details would be communicated in due course.
Sports Minister Zizi Kodwa said he was “saddened that yet another life has been cut short due to violent crime”.
Fleurs joined Kaizer Chiefs last year, having played for SuperSport United. Kaizer Chiefs describes Fleurs as a “classy defender” with “great technical abilities”.
Reports indicate that he started his career in 2013 at the Ubuntu Cape Town Academy,