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Johannesburg – "I'm completely devastated, no one deserves to die that way, it was hard to see my brother lying in the car," Warren Batchelor said Tuesday morning. "
"My brother was colorful and he had talent," lamented Warren.
Warren was speaking in front of his brother Marc Batchelor's house in Olivedale.
He said the family hoped that justice would be done.
The former Sundowns football player, Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs was shot dead Monday night. Marc Batchelor was driving with his gardener in his car when he was shot in front of his home around 18:30.
According to preliminary information, the former footballer was shot dead by two men riding a motorcycle.
Shortly after the shooting on Monday, Lv.-Col. Lungelo Dlamini, police spokesman, said: "The police are investigating a murder case after a former football player, Marc Batchelor, was attacked by two men driving a motorcycle to Olivedale in front of his home.
"He received several bullets and died in his vehicle."
Police were looking for two suspects who were seen fleeing the scene after repeatedly shooting him.
Michelle Paine, a family friend, said it was amazing and that what they did to Mark was unfair. "He was a good person, what happened to him is hard to explain."
Marc Batchelor may be best remembered for being part of the Pirates team that won the African Champions League tournament in 1995.
Commenting on the murder, Irvin Khoza, owner of the Orlando Pirates football club and president of the South African Premier League football, nicknamed "Iron Duke or Squveve", said that Marc Batchelor was a "hero".
The "Iron Duke" said during apartheid that the attacker would train in the townships and use the same showers as the black players. With Mark Fish and Gavin Lane, Marc Batchelor made South Africa look "normal" when it was not.
African News Agency / ANA
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