{"id":144946,"date":"2017-02-22T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/144946\/friends-shot\/"},"modified":"2017-02-22T10:23:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T08:23:37","slug":"friends-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/22\/friends-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends shot by unknown man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While walking in the Marathon informal settlement, recently, two friends were allegedly shot by an unknown man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the victims explained that while walking past a local tavern he heard a gunshot, and all of a sudden his friend fell to the ground.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe was confused at first, but realised his friend had been shot,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>It was then that the man claims that the unknown gunman walked towards him and allegedly fired three shots at him.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOne of the bullets hit the man in the upper body,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The men were taken to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing the description given by the victim, officers were able to trace the 43-year-old man accused of the crime and he was arrested,\u201d Maome said.<\/p>\n<p>He has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court where his case was postponed for plea and trial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/144914\/man-nabbed-dagga-seized-in-gerdview-raid\/\">Gerdview dagga lab uncovered, R200 00 worth of dagga seized<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/144940\/suspected-drug-supplier-arrested-r1-2-m-in-drugs-seized\/\">Suspected drug supplier arrested, R1.2-m in drugs seized<\/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='4f70793a26189e9cca7d0cdcceef7f84'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 43-year-man was arrested by the Primrose police, recently, on charges of attempted murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":145256,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-144946","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-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","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","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144946","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=144946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}