{"id":67059,"date":"2014-08-24T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/67059\/argument-about-soccer-leads-to-murder\/"},"modified":"2014-08-22T12:27:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T10:27:29","slug":"argument-about-soccer-leads-to-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/24\/argument-about-soccer-leads-to-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Argument about soccer leads to murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, August 17, the Primrose police arrested a 32-year-old man for the murder of his friend.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the two men were watching a soccer match together when they began to argue.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It is believed the two men started arguing over the score,&#8221; explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deceased is said have claimed he was the smarter of the two, as he had started school first.&#8221;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The accused became angry and stabbed the deceased with a sharp object in the upper body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The man was rushed to hospital, but later died due to his injuries,&#8221; added Maome.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were able to trace the accused and he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He later appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where his case was postponed for trial.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect will remain in custody till his next court appearance.<\/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='de63e50d05ea3fae12188e0e8ea4067c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man stabbed with sharp object during argument later dies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":67060,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,2730,1563,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-67059","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-leigh-hodgson","tag-murder","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","Leigh Hodgson","murder","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67059","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=67059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}