Pastor Jason Moonsamy, whose daughter Michaela Moonsamy Yellapen, was shot and killed during a night out with her friend, asked social media users to keep his family in prayer as the pre-trial conference is expected to be held today.
"We want to see justice being served. But for justice being served, it does not mean we are up and against the people who took the life of my daughter. We still love them and believe God has a place for them. We will not hate them," said Pastor Moonsamy in a TikTok video posted on Monday.
He said from pre-trial, in the Boksburg Regional Court, all they could do was trust God.
Yellapen, 28, of Benoni, was shot and killed after two men allegedly opened fire on her, her husband, Cameron Yellapen, brother Jeremy Moonsamy, and two of their friends outside a restaurant in Boksburg in May last year.
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Michaela, a financial accountant at a law firm, was shot once in the head and took her last breath in her brother’s arms.
In an earlier interview with the POST, Pastor Moonsamy had said: “Michaela was my everything, my heartbeat and the apple of my eye. She was always proudly ‘daddy’s girl’. Before her death, I had suffered a few heart attacks, and she would say, ‘daddy please don’t die, you can’t leave me. If you go, I have to go with you’. Today, I am forced to live without her. It is not fair that because of other’s actions, our family, who have never ever experienced such pain, have to bear this unbearable grief for the rest of our lives."
One suspect was charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder.