{"id":93797,"date":"2015-07-10T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/93797\/police-officer-wounded-security-guard-killed-in-leondale-shooting\/"},"modified":"2015-07-10T14:43:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:43:02","slug":"police-officer-wounded-security-guard-killed-in-leondale-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/07\/10\/police-officer-wounded-security-guard-killed-in-leondale-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer wounded, security guard killed in Leondale shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A security guard was killed and a police officer was rushed to hospital in a critical condition after a robbery in Leondale, on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that five suspects, driving a BMW, arrived at a chemical plant and held a security officer at gun-point.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhilst they were driving around with him, other suspects broke into the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA security guard responded to the alarm and a shoot-out ensued,\u201d said Lieut-Col Katlego Mogale from the Gauteng provincial SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Police members on patrol in the area heard the gunshots and rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the ensuing shoot-out, the security guard was fatally wounded and a police member was critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne suspect was arrested and police recovered two cellphones, as well as an unlicensed firearm on the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The police have launched a manhunt to locate the other four suspects who fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other crime articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/93687\/two-young-boys-found-dead-in-bmw\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking News: Two young boys found dead in BMW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/93410\/three-arrested-for-primrose-housebreaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">Three arrested for Primrose housebreaking<\/a><\/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='73af8f62afddf6634c88f14f2ef0364d'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police launch manhunt for shooters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":93802,"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":[1783,989,7824,979,969,1068,2734,1563,999,998,1939],"class_list":["post-93797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-attempted-murder","tag-crime","tag-dead","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leondale","tag-melissa-hart","tag-murder","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-shot"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["attempted murder","crime","dead","germiston","germiston city news","leondale","melissa hart","murder","police","SAPS","shot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93797","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=93797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}