{"id":85523,"date":"2015-04-07T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/85523\/murder-victim-dies-in-the-arms-of-the-police\/"},"modified":"2015-04-07T12:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T10:07:05","slug":"murder-victim-dies-in-the-arms-of-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/07\/murder-victim-dies-in-the-arms-of-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder victim dies in the arms of the police"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Elsburg police are investigating a case of murder after a men was stabbed and killed in Wadeville, recently.<\/p>\n

The man was attacked on March 31, at about noon, and stabbed in his upper body near the Wadeville Train Station.<\/p>

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\u201cIt is alleged that two men chased each other out of the Wadeville Train Station.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were fighting due to old grudges between them, as well as fighting over a girlfriend,\u201d said Const Daphney Phooko, the communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS.<\/p>

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One of the men was stabbed in the upper body with a knife and he died in the arms of police officers while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.<\/p>\n

The suspect fled the scene but Elsburg police officers tracked him down to Spruitview, and he was arrested in the early hours of the morning on April 1.<\/p>\n

He was detained at the Elsburg Police Station pending his appearance in the Germiston Magistrates Court on a charge of murder.<\/p>\n

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This man was arrested in connection with a murder which was committed in Wadeville on March 31.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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