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Detectives are urgently tracking stacks of high-tech surveillance images to locate two gunmen who opened fire on defense attorney William Booth at his Cape Town home on Thursday morning.
The high-profile lawyer survived the dawn shooting at his home in the upscale Cape Town suburb of Higgovale.
Crime scene investigators combed the neighborhood for clues on foot.
Sources in other parts of the city said detectives were accessing recordings from several different camera systems to search for the apparent escape vehicle.
These included private security cameras linked to contracted security providers in the neighborhood.
In addition, Cape Town’s network of license plate recognition cameras (LPR) was being examined, which could allow police to track the movements of shooters along the city’s roads. There are two main LPR networks, in which camera owners collaborate to share information.
The City of Cape Town also has its own network of cameras, as does the SA National Roads Agency Ltd (Sanral), and these are closely monitored at the City’s state-of-the-art Transportation Management Center (TMC) in Goodwood.
Police at the scene of the home of main criminal lawyer William Booth in Cape Town after he survived a coup attempt while in his garage. (Murray Williams, News24)
Booth declined to comment.
The Higgovale suburb comprises a tangled network of streets, stretching between multi-story houses perched on the steep slope below the Table Mountain Aerial cable car lower station, offering panoramic views over the City Bowl and Table Bay.
Western Cape police confirmed that an attempted murder case was under investigation and that two suspects were being sought.
“Two suspects armed with surgical masks shot the victim, but failed in their attempt and fortunately failed,” said police spokesman Colonel Andrè Traut.
They fled the scene and have not yet been arrested, he added.
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