{"id":57260,"date":"2014-04-10T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/57260\/man-shot-and-burned-in-leondale\/"},"modified":"2014-04-10T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T11:34:16","slug":"man-shot-and-burned-in-leondale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/04\/10\/man-shot-and-burned-in-leondale\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot and set alight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man died when he was shot and set alight, in Leondale, this morning, April 10.<\/p>\n<p>ER24 paramedics arrived on scene to find SAPS members already present and the man&#8217;s body lying near the N3 off-ramp.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>His clothes were still smouldering.<\/p>\n<p>According to Russel Meiring, the emergency media and client liaison coordinator for ER24, evidence showed that the patient had sustained a bullet wound to his head before being set alight.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The exact cause of the incident is unknown and the relevant investigations are underway.<\/p>\n<p>More details will follow once they become available.<\/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='9d0b0e0078685fb5243931357f9a8774'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was found shot in the head and burned in Leondale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":57267,"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":[3268,1824,979,1068,2734,1563,999,998,1939],"class_list":["post-57260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-burned","tag-er24","tag-germiston","tag-leondale","tag-melissa-hart","tag-murder","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-shot"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["burned","ER24","germiston","leondale","melissa hart","murder","police","SAPS","shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57260","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=57260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}