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Heartbroken Centurion parents: ‘We want answers about our son’s fatal shooting’

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Josh Edwards was a Grade 11 learner. Nobody has yet been arrested in connection with his death. (PHOTO: Sharon Seretlo)
Josh Edwards was a Grade 11 learner. Nobody has yet been arrested in connection with his death. (PHOTO: Sharon Seretlo)

It’s a tragedy that’s torn two families apart. Two school friends are behind a closed bedroom door. A shot rings out and one boy is left lying bloody and lifeless on the floor while the other is too traumatised to speak.

Three months after their son’s death, Tim and Julie Edwards are still grappling to come to terms with what happened on the afternoon of 5 January.

Julie had dropped their son, Joshua (16), at his friend’s house in Centurion that day. Two hours later, she got the news no parent should ever hear. Her child was dead.

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