{"id":104403,"date":"2019-11-04T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T09:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=104403"},"modified":"2019-11-05T08:47:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T06:47:46","slug":"cop-shoots-resident-turning-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/11\/04\/cop-shoots-resident-turning-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Cop shoots resident before turning gun on himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Brigadier Leonard Hlathi, the police officer reportedly waited for the man where he disembarked from a taxi on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe incident occurred at about 18:30 in Rockdale.<\/p>\n<p>The man was allegedly from work at the time of the shooting.<br \/>\nSgt M.L Shaya shot the man before shooting himself.<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier Hlathi, said it is not clear why Sgt Shaya shot the man and that an investigation is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the SAPS Middelburg Flying Squad shot a man before turning his service pistol on himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":59364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Tiisetso Malunga","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[21711,21713,21712,10010,21714,12898,21715,21716,10333],"class_list":["post-104403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-cop-shoots-civilian-before-shooting-himself","tag-cop-shoots-civilian-before-turning-service-pistol-on-himself","tag-cop-shoots-civilian-with-service-weapon","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-flying-squad-member-shoots-civilian-before-killing-himself","tag-middelburg-news","tag-murder-suicide","tag-murder-suicide-by-police-officers","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["cop shoots civilian before shooting himself","cop shoots civilian before turning service pistol on himself","cop shoots civilian with service weapon","local news","Middelburg Flying Squad member shoots civilian before killing himself","middelburg news","murder suicide","murder suicide by police officers","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}