Survivor of deadly Westbury shooting accuses police of colluding with gangs

A survivor of a deadly shooting in Westbury, Johannesburg, which left two teenagers dead, has accused local police of colluding with gangs.

Carl Mentor said that following Tuesday's shooting, police had been falsely linking him and his friends to a known gang in the area called Varados in an effort to pin the deadly incident on gang violence.

The 19-year-old was one of the victims who survived the shooting, alongside four of his other friends who are still recovering at the Helen Joseph Hospital.

Four teenagers approached the group of seven boys between the ages of 13 and 19 and opened fire, killing two and injuring five others before walking away from the scene.

Mentor, who was discharged on Wednesday, said that because they were found in a suspected drug den, smoking hubbly, police are claiming that they are part of the gang.

"Sophiatown, they work with those people. Sophiatown, they're also gangsters - Varados and Fast Guns. All of them... they work with gangsters. They collect money by drug lords, those people. Sophiatown."