Parow Valley dad calls for witnesses to step forward after son's murder
Egan Sampson, 24.
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The family of Egan Sampson is seeking justice after their innocent son was brutally murdered earlier this year, with the father claiming that, until now, there has been no progress in the case.
Sampson, 24, from Parow Valley, was out with his friends when he was gunned down in Denton Street, Ravensmead, at around 2am on January 31, 2026.
His father, James Sampson, said a friend informed the family that Egan was shot and claimed that when they went back for him, he was gone.
The father later had to identify his son’s body at Tygerberg Hospital, as he came in as an "unknown".
The dad explained: “Egan was at the wrong place at the wrong time. They were moving around in Ravensmead when they got accosted and robbed, and the result is him being shot.
“According to the undertaker, he was shot about six times. Egan was not a gangster.
“We have accepted that it happened and are dealing with his passing. There is not much we can do except support each other. It is emotionally taxing because he is the youngest in the family and had the most potential.
“The last update I got was three weeks ago, saying they are trying to locate the friends who were with him the night it happened; they just disappeared and went underground because they are witnesses. There is now suspicion that there may be something more sinister.
“Police contacted the friends and arranged for them to make statements, but they never pitched up. I don’t know these friends; we only know his usual friends.
“The police either do not have the resources because there is no progress, or it seems like they are just doing admin because they have the bullets, they have the casings, and they have been told who was with him at the time.
“There are witnesses, there are video recordings of the incident, because there are cameras on the houses in the street. But the neighbours said the cameras are not working. We got word that the people in the street were apparently threatened.”
James said that he fears nothing will come from his son’s murder if the perpetrators are not caught.
He added: “There are other youngsters who are not into gangsterism and have nothing to do with these kinds of things, who are getting murdered for no particular reason.
“These guys who do these things are not caught and arrested, and that is the main thing I am more concerned about; why the witnesses are not coming forward and why these guys are not being arrested? “The quicker they are off the street, the less chance they have of killing others.”
When the Cape Argus sister publication, Daily Voice followed up with Saps, police spokesperson Constable Ndakhe Gwala confirmed: “There are no new developments to report at this stage.”