Slain teen `wanted to live far away from Hanover Park`
(WorldNews Africa)

Cape Town - `I was busy dishing up food for my children when a neighbour´s child came running into my kitchen to say Tavia had been shot and was lying near the tuckshop.` This is how a mother, Johanna Johannessen, heard her 16-year-old daughter Octavia had been shot metres away from her home. The Grade 9 pupil was killed by stray bullets during an alleged gang battle in Hanover Park on Tuesday night. According to Johannessen, Octavia was found face-down on a pavement and paramedics tried to save her but the Crystal High pupil died there. `I am numb,` said the 47-year-old mother when the Weekend Argus visited the family home. On Thursday night a vigil was held outside the teen´s home, close...