{"id":81460,"date":"2015-02-18T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81460\/man-shot-on-highway\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T09:43:15","slug":"man-shot-on-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/02\/18\/man-shot-on-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot and robbed on the N3 highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was shot and wounded on the N3 highway, near the Geldenhuys interchange, at about 7pm, on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Capt George Raphulu, head of communications for the Germiston SAPS, said the man\u2019s truck broke down and he was at the side of the highway.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe was approached by two men,&#8221; said Raphulu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the suspects was armed with a firearm.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect, with the firearm, fired a shot at the complainant and hit him in the right leg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The men then made off with the victim\u2019s wallet, which contained R100 cash, bank cards and his cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>A case of attempted murder has been opened by the Germiston police.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made yet.<\/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='638e4b67a5c863b01bec07ae05253341'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a case of attempted murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":81462,"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":[2472,1783,989,6597,979,969,1031,2734,6596,999,1572,998],"class_list":["post-81460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-alberton-saps","tag-attempted-murder","tag-crime","tag-geldenhuys-interchange","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-police","tag-melissa-hart","tag-n3-highway","tag-police","tag-robbery","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["alberton saps","attempted murder","crime","geldenhuys interchange","germiston","germiston city news","germiston police","melissa hart","N3 highway","police","robbery","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81460","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=81460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}