For a few years after the death of her teenage son, Melanie Kiel would shake and burst into tears at the sound of gunshots.
Kiel’s son, Dudley Richards, was shot in Karoopoort Street in Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, on December 2, 2013.
“He went to visit his friend that night and he was on his way back home,” she recalled.
“His friend was