{"id":149041,"date":"2017-04-14T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/149041\/man-shot-and-killed-in-webber-road\/"},"modified":"2017-04-14T11:57:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T09:57:42","slug":"man-shot-and-killed-in-webber-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/04\/14\/man-shot-and-killed-in-webber-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot and killed in Webber Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston police have confirmed that they are investigating a murder after a recent shooting in Webber Road, in Lambton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers were called to the scene of a shooting at about 1pm,\u201d said Capt George Raphulu, head of communications for the Germiston SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival they found a 50-year-old man in a pool of blood, in a double-cab bakkie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had been shot and killed.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The preliminary investigation found that 29 bullets had been fired into the vehicle, with an unconfirmed number of bullets hitting the victim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to an eyewitness a Ford Focus blocked the road just before the robots in front of the Clarendon Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo men jumped out of the vehicle and began to shoot at the man in the double cab, before returning to their vehicle and driving away,\u201d said Raphulu.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made and the suspects remain at large.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148806\/coral-street-shooting-leaves-one-dead-and-two-injured\/\">Coral Street shooting leaves one dead and two injured<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/147450\/firearm-linked-to-murder\/\">Firearm linked to murder<\/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='aa6ead187d3f4d1a3bc9c5645d3fa7dd'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston police are investigating the murder of a 50-year-old man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":149042,"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":[8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,1032,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-149041","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-germiston-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","germiston saps","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149041","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=149041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}