Girl, 6, injured, 4 dead in 5 days of gang shootings

A six-year-old girl is among the latest victims in the ongoing clashes between rival Americans and Fancy Boys gangs in Lentegeur and Beacon Valley this past week, according Lentegeur police spokesperson, Constable Navon van Houten.

The incident in which the girl was injured and taken to a nearby hospital, came two days after an 18-year-old man was gunned down in Korfbal Street in Beacon Valley on Wednesday 8 January.

Lentegeur police is also investigating a double murder that took place along Morgenster Road on Saturday 11 January, as well as two attempted murders, which occurred in the same road on Sunday 12 January, in apparent tensions between the Americans and Fancy Boys gangs.

Constable van Houten said gang tensions between Mongrels and Terrible Josters gangs in Montrose Park also claimed the lives of two men, who died in separate incidents on Thursday 9 and Sunday 12 January.