{"id":74132,"date":"2014-11-24T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/74132\/man-hands-himself-over-to-police-after-argument\/"},"modified":"2014-11-24T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T07:24:08","slug":"man-hands-himself-over-to-police-after-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/24\/man-hands-himself-over-to-police-after-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Man explains he didn\u2019t mean to kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year-old man handed himself over to police on Sunday, November 16, following a murder in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The man went to the Primrose Police Station and openly admitted to stabbing the victim, but alleged that it had been in self-defence.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe told officers that he was with the deceased, drinking alcohol, when they began to argue,&#8221; explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fight quickly escalated and, he claimed, the deceased ran to his shack and brought back a sharp instrument and tried to stab him.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The man said he was able to overpower the deceased and stabbed him with the object, resulting in his death.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken into police custody and will appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.<\/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='7484728bb6143fab2b06d120d52ef5dc'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man hands himself over to police after argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":74133,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1563,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-74132","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-germiston-city-news","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","germiston city news","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\/74132","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=74132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}