{"id":70050,"date":"2014-10-03T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/70050\/security-guard-allegedly-shoots-and-kills-train-commuter\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T14:58:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T12:58:37","slug":"security-guard-allegedly-shoots-and-kills-train-commuter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/03\/security-guard-allegedly-shoots-and-kills-train-commuter\/","title":{"rendered":"Security guard allegedly shoots and kills train commuter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston police have arrested a train security officer after he allegedly shot and killed a commuter on Thursday, at Union Train Station, in Dinwiddie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The security officer&#8217;s firearm has been seized and will be sent to ballistics for examination,&#8221; said spokesman for the Germiston SAPS Andr\u00e9 de Jager.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The suspect is due to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that\u00a0Prasa security officers searched and escorted commuters who did not have valid tickets off the train.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The commuters were allegedly then forced to stand and instructed to wait at a certain spot of the station.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the process, they claimed that the guards assaulted them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the commuters allegedly fought back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A security guard drew his firearm and fired a shot; the 30-year-old victim was struck in the upper body and died on the scene,&#8221; said de Jager.<\/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='d0e68b445017bce0af5f080b8ea8b759'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Train commuter allegedly killed by security guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":70064,"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":[989,1324,979,969,1032,2734,1563,999,998,3960,1939,2553,5030],"class_list":["post-70050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-dinwiddie","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-saps","tag-melissa-hart","tag-murder","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-security-guard","tag-shot","tag-train","tag-union-train-station"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","dinwiddie","germiston","germiston city news","germiston saps","melissa hart","murder","police","SAPS","security guard","shot","train","union train station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70050","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=70050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}