A minor was today charged and remanded over the murder of 10-year-old Anthony Cort, who was shot dead last week during a robbery in Sophia.
The 16-year-old accused was arraigned before Magistrate Alisha George at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court, where the charge was read to him.
It is alleged that on March 11, at Lot 612 Packet Corner, ‘C’ Field, Sophia, he murdered Cort in the course or furtherance of a robbery.
He was not required to plead to the charge and the matter was adjourned until May 12. The teen will be remanded at the Sophia Juvenile Holding Centre.
Two persons carried out the attack on Thursday, March 11, 2021, at Packet Corner, ‘C’ Field, Sophia, where Cort was fatally shot while visiting a friend’s home. Cort and his mother, Denise McPherson, were at the Lot 614 Packet Corner home of businesswoman Monette Famey when two persons, wearing face masks and armed with handguns stormed in. Cort was shot when he exited a room in the upper flat.