Trevor Noah's stepfather hunted him down and wanted to kill him after shooting his mother in the face in a fit of rage.
Towering mechanic Abel Shingange thought he had killed his wife Patricia at their home in Johannesburg, South Africa after a violent row in 2009.
And as his temper boiled over relatives say he continued on the warpath and, armed with a handgun, tried to find Noah who was 25 at the time.
But the comedian's grandmother says Noah – announced earlier this week as Jon Stewart's replacement on The Daily Show - was not easy to find and escaped with his life.
In an interview Nomalizo Noah told Daily Mail Online: 'After shooting the mother Abel went around with a gun trying to find Trevor, but Trevor was always here, there and everywhere, performing on stage, you never knew where he was.
'So when Patricia's husband began to hunt him he couldn't find him.'
The sprightly 88-year-old added: 'They are very lucky to be alive, thank you to God, Abel was a horrible, horrible man, I hated him.'
Towering mechanic Abel Shingange thought he had killed his wife Patricia at their home in Johannesburg, South Africa after a violent row in 2009.
And as his temper boiled over relatives say he continued on the warpath and, armed with a handgun, tried to find Noah who was 25 at the time.
But the comedian's grandmother says Noah – announced earlier this week as Jon Stewart's replacement on The Daily Show - was not easy to find and escaped with his life.
In an interview Nomalizo Noah told Daily Mail Online: 'After shooting the mother Abel went around with a gun trying to find Trevor, but Trevor was always here, there and everywhere, performing on stage, you never knew where he was.
'So when Patricia's husband began to hunt him he couldn't find him.'
The sprightly 88-year-old added: 'They are very lucky to be alive, thank you to God, Abel was a horrible, horrible man, I hated him.'
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