{"id":20190,"date":"2014-10-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/20190\/culpable-homicide-investigated\/"},"modified":"2014-10-23T09:03:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T07:03:13","slug":"culpable-homicide-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/23\/culpable-homicide-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"Culpable homicide investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mapule (23) and her boyfriend, Mr Samson Kgwedi (27), were hit by a motorbike in SADC Street on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/19477\/woman-dies-in-pedestrian-accident\/\">She was declared dead on the scene after paramedics tried in vain to resuscitate her.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The driver of the motorbike, Paul \u201cReaper\u201d Carr, was taken to hospital with fractures and a head injury. His passenger, whose name is not known, sustained a knee fracture but did not receive medical assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The man, together with another biker, were rushed from the scene after bystanders became aggressive.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20155\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/IMG_410_605107813.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20155\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/IMG_410_605107813-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"Ettie Matji, Mariaan Kruger and owner of La Pomme Vert Joanne Petzer.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/IMG_410_605107813-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/IMG_410_605107813-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/IMG_410_605107813.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ettie Matji, Mariaan Kruger and owner of La Pomme Vert Joanne Petzer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Kgwedi was taken to hospital with a serious leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>Mapule was the sole breadwinner of her family of four. She lived with her mother Tebogo, brother Thaba (16) and sister Kgomotso (12).<\/p>\n<p>She will be laid to rest on Sunday at 09:00. Mapule\u2019s body will be brought to the accident scene before going to the Tokologo Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Police confirmed that a case of culpable homicide is being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In memory of her life and to help Mapule\u2019s family with much needed funds, all proceeds from the Pop-up Food Shop will be donated to the Sereto family.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held at the La Pomme Vert restaurant in Fountain Square (next to the Middelburg Mall).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mr Carr made rude comments to a journalist at the Oktoberfest less than an hour before the accident occurred on Saturday. This is vehemently denied by his friends who were with him at the time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19481\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/BJOKT10-2-1_579435680.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19481\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/BJOKT10-2-1_579435680-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"Emergency workers lift an unconscious Mr Reaper Carr onto a spine board for transportation to hospital.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/BJOKT10-2-1_579435680-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/BJOKT10-2-1_579435680-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/10\/BJOKT10-2-1_579435680.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emergency workers lift an unconscious Mr Reaper Carr onto a spine board for transportation to hospital.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Pomme Vert hosted a Pop-up Food Shop in memory of Mapule Sereto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":20191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}