{"id":77766,"date":"2015-01-04T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T07:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/77766\/man-arrested-for-october-murder\/"},"modified":"2015-01-02T13:50:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T11:50:03","slug":"man-arrested-for-october-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/04\/man-arrested-for-october-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for October murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old man was recently arrested at Marathon informal settlement by the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The man is alleged to be one of four suspects reported to have assaulted and killed a 31-year-old in October 2014.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When the men realised that they had killed the victim, they went into a hiding, triggering a man hunt by the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur officers received a tip-off from an informer that one of the suspects had been seen in the Marathon informal settlement,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications office of the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey travelled to the address given by the informant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers reported that when the suspect saw the police vehicle he started running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officers chased after the man, on foot, and were able to corner and arrest him.<\/p>\n<p>Acting station commander Luiet\/Col Frans Lepadima thanked the members of community who came forward with the information that lead to the man\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the community continues to work with us we will be able to reduce crime in our area,\u201d said Lepadima.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect will appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.<\/p>\n<p>The hunt for the remaining three suspects continues.<\/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='bc05f07748acb519caf34bbbe930e2a8'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assault turns to murder, four men on the run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":77767,"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":[1041,1397,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1563,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-77766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-assault","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","assault","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\/77766","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=77766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}