{"id":79086,"date":"2015-01-22T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/79086\/local-businessman-murdered\/"},"modified":"2015-01-22T09:11:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T07:11:32","slug":"local-businessman-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/22\/local-businessman-murdered\/","title":{"rendered":"Local businessman murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 45-year-old business owner was murdered in Germiston South, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

While out on patrol in the early hours of the morning, Germiston SAPS members saw people running in an open veld and decided to pursue them.<\/p>

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The officers managed to apprehend one of the men and found a firearm in his possession.<\/p>\n

It was then that they got a call on the police radio to say that there was a business robbery in progress in Moller Road, Germiston South.<\/p>

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The firearm which was seized by the Germiston SAPS from one of the murder suspects.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe officers questioned the suspect about the business robbery and he admitted that he and his friends had robbed the business,\u201d said WO Andr\u00e9 de Jager, spokesman for the Germiston Police Cluster.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey then went to the home of one of the suspect\u2019s friends in Germiston Extension Nine, and arrested another two men.\u201d<\/p>\n

Upon their arrival at the scene of the crime, the officers discovered that the suspects had shot and killed the 45-year-old business owner.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not known if anything was taken from the scene,\u201d de Jager said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe suspects aged 24, 25 and 28, were arrested and detained at the Germiston Police Station and the firearm was booked in as evidence by Const Thabo Chiloane and Const Hazlet Ndlovu.\u201d<\/p>\n

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