{"id":133988,"date":"2016-09-25T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133988\/woman-murdered-for-her-handbag\/"},"modified":"2016-09-25T20:43:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:43:26","slug":"woman-murdered-for-her-handbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/09\/25\/woman-murdered-for-her-handbag\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman murdered for her handbag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston SAPS are investigating a case of murder after a woman was shot and killed on September 16 in Delville.<\/p>\n<p>Capt George Raphulu, head of communications for the Germiston police, said, \u201cAt about 11.30pm it is alleged the woman was followed from a pub in Delville.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs the victim opened her gate a man approached her and started wrestling with her for her handbag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raphulu added that according to an eye witness the perpetrator pulled out a gun and shot the victim.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Two shots were fired which killed the woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect then ran away with the victim\u2019s handbag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice are investigating the matter and no arrests have been made,\u201d said Raphulu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133729\/man-arrested-for-august-kidnapping-and-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested for August kidnapping and murder<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133875\/siblings-threatened-with-sharp-object-during-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Siblings threatened with sharp object during robbery<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='9566eb5c471487a02d7cd30084fa657a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a Delville murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":133990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[989,1123,979,969,1032,2734,1563,999,998,1770,1939],"class_list":["post-133988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-delville","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-saps","tag-melissa-hart","tag-murder","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-shoot","tag-shot"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","Delville","germiston","germiston city news","germiston saps","melissa hart","murder","police","SAPS","shoot","shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}