NATIONAL NEWS - A member of the Steval Pumas rugby team spent a night in the holding cells at the local police station after allegedly pointing a firearm and tossing bricks at two men during a night out in the city.
He is being charged with the pointing of a firearm after the alleged incident on 31 March.
Wilmaure Louw, the team’s outside centre, sustained a fractured jaw during a game against Vodacom Blue Bulls at Loftus Versveld earlier that day, but that did not prevent him from going out that night.
He was at Legends, a club in the CBD at about 02:30. He apparently engaged in a heated conversation with Mr Gabby de Oliveira when the latter arrived at the club with his friends. The conversation escalated into an argument and the two men decided to “take it outside”.
“When we arrived in the parking lot, he (Louw) darted to his vehicle, pulled out a handgun and pointed it to my face,” De Oliveira said. “I told him I’m not going to fight him since he had a gun, so he shoved it into his pants and said, ‘okay then, fight me like a man’. I refused because of the gun.”
Louw allegedly removed the firearm from his pants and wielded it in the air. At this point De Oliveira turned and ran. He said he heard “maybe five or six gunshots” as he was running away.
