{"id":145813,"date":"2017-03-01T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/145813\/couple-attacked-in-their-home-husband-shot\/"},"modified":"2017-03-02T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T06:50:08","slug":"couple-attacked-in-their-home-husband-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/01\/couple-attacked-in-their-home-husband-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple attacked in their Norton Small Farms home, husband shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Norton Small Farms couple experienced a terrible ordeal, on Tuesday morning, when their home was broken into by two men.<\/p>\n<p>According to Capt George Raphulu, head of communications for the Germiston SAPS, the incident took place at about 8.30am.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt is alleged that two men entered a complex in Cornelius Road and then gained access to the couple\u2019s home,\u201d said Raphulu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey grabbed the woman and pushed her into the main bedroom where they tied her hands.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cShortly after this the woman\u2019s husband returned home and when the suspects saw him one of them shot him in the stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The men made off with R1 000 cash, a bank card and jewellery.<\/p>\n<p>The man and woman were transported to hospital, where, Raphulu said, the man is currently in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was treated for shock.<\/p>\n<p>Cases of attempted murder and house robbery have been opened at the Germiston Police Station for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made as yet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/145610\/men-allegedly-pretending-to-be-fumigators-robbing-houses\/\">Men allegedly pretending to be fumigators, robbing houses in Primrose<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/145656\/wadeville-business-robbery-leaves-one-dead-others-traumatised-2\/\">Update: Employee shot dead, R6-million worth of nickel stolen in Wadeville business 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='ceaa1a0a94b485350cafe61d412728e9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating cases of attempted murder and house robbery after home attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":145817,"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":[1783,989,979,969,1031,1322,2734,1394,999,998],"class_list":["post-145813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-attempted-murder","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-police","tag-house-robbery","tag-melissa-hart","tag-norton-small-farms","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["attempted murder","crime","germiston","germiston city news","germiston police","house robbery","melissa hart","norton small farms","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145813","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=145813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}