{"id":134900,"date":"2016-10-07T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/134900\/teenager-allegedly-beaten-to-death\/"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T13:24:13","slug":"teenager-allegedly-beaten-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/10\/07\/teenager-allegedly-beaten-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager allegedly beaten to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Katlehong police recently arrested a 29-year-old man from the Siphamandla informal settlement for murder.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the suspect beat his 15-year-old girlfriend, who was visiting him from Zonkizizwe, to death with a garden shovel.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe motive for the murder is still unknown,\u201d said Capt Mega Ndobe, of the Ekurhuleni West Cluster.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken to the Katlehong Police Station, where he was detained pending his appearance in court.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhile in the holding cells of the station the suspect attempted to commit suicide,\u201d said Ndobe.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the man tried to hang himself using his shoelaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was found during a routine cell search.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers were able to save him and he will appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court soon,\u201d Ndobe said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you might also be interested in reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/134898\/man-lures-young-girl-to-his-home-allegedly-rapes-her\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man lures young girl to his home, allegedly rapes her<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/134675\/stock-assault-leaves-woman-beaten\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shock assault leaves woman beaten<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/134719\/two-men-arrested-for-rape\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two men arrested for rape<\/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='4b78074d7f3517317c507d989c20f079'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested for allegedly beating his 15-year-old girlfriend to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":134901,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,1015,1034,1314,2730,1563,999,998],"class_list":["post-134900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-katlehong","tag-katlehong-police","tag-katlehong-saps","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-murder","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","katlehong","katlehong police","katlehong saps","Leigh Hodgson","murder","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134900","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=134900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}