{"id":142201,"date":"2017-01-13T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142201\/police-officer-shot-in-business-robbery\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T15:42:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T13:42:04","slug":"police-officer-shot-in-business-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/13\/police-officer-shot-in-business-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer shot in business robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer was shot in the head while responding to a business robbery at a BP garage, in the Twala Section of Katlehong North, early on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The officer, Const Tshepo Tladi, was shot in the head as police tried to stop the fleeing suspects.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He was transported to Union Hospital, in Alberton, in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged thieves were able to escape police and made off with an undisclosed amount of money.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A case of business robbery and attempted murder was opened for investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one was arrested during the incident, however police were able to seize the vehicle used by the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of suspects involved in the crime hasn&#8217;t been confirmed at this stage,\u201d said Capt Mega Ndobe, of the Ekurhuleni West cluster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141622\/officers-nab-man-after-long-chase\/\" target=\"_blank\">Officers nab man after long chase<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141219\/police-address-trio-and-contact-crimes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police address trio and contact crimes<\/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='a451d02daf5da28968ccc2da66d2d987'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business robbers flee after shoot-out with police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":142202,"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":[8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,13423,1034,1314,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-142201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-katlehong-north","tag-katlehong-police","tag-katlehong-saps","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","katlehong north","katlehong police","katlehong saps","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142201","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=142201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}