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- A Cape Town paramedic was saved by a bulletproof vest after being shot on a call in Mitchells Plain.
- It was the second time he had been attacked after also surviving a stabbing at work.
- The shooter was not even concerned about the presence of a police escort when he approached the paramedic and pulled the trigger.
A Cape Town paramedic was shot while driving a patient to the hospital in Mitchells Plain at 3:00 a.m. Tuesday.
He survived because he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
The paramedic has been attacked before when he survived the stabbing.
Paramedics and firefighters must be escorted through “red zones” in some parts of Cape Town, which have been declared highly dangerous for ambulances and firefighters.
According to the police spokesman, Colonel Andrè Traut, the paramedic said that while accompanying a patient to the hospital, he was at the corner of Imperial and Palestrina streets when a man he did not know, who was about to cross the street, He pulled a firearm from his waist, pointed, and fired a shot through the driver’s side window.
The driver was hit, but the bulletproof vest saved him.
“The vehicle was escorted by [the SA Police Service] at the time of the incident, “Traut said.
The shooter got away and no one had been arrested Tuesday afternoon.
Traut said anyone with information should contact Mitchells Plain Police Detective Sergeant Angus November on 021 370 1782.
It was not the first attack on the now deeply traumatized paramedic.
He was stabbed in the back before; at the time, he was also wearing his bulletproof vest.
EMS spokeswoman Deanna Bessick said the driver’s colleague was also traumatized by the shooting and both will be offered counseling.
