{"id":54567,"date":"2014-03-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/54567\/man-murdered-following-argumentorargument-escalates-to-murder\/"},"modified":"2014-03-10T09:29:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T07:29:06","slug":"man-murdered-following-argumentorargument-escalates-to-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/03\/10\/man-murdered-following-argumentorargument-escalates-to-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Argument escalates to murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police arrested a 46-year-old man on Tuesday, February 25, in connection with a murder that took place in the Marathon informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Officers began the murder investigation on February 8.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s girlfriend explained that they had been at a local tavern when her boyfriend was involved in an argument with the accused.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because of this altercation, the couple decided to leave the tavern and head home,&#8221;explained communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome .<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The suspect followed the couple and, when they were a safe distance from the tavern, he stabbed the victim to death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where his case was postponed for trial.<\/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='a61637ee2972373d653d7c1fdf5dd632'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man murdered following argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":54568,"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":[1041,989,1012,1003,979,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-54567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","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","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","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\/54567","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=54567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}