{"id":47826,"date":"2016-05-04T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/47826\/mhluzi-man-shot-twice-and-killed\/"},"modified":"2016-05-06T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T09:22:58","slug":"mhluzi-man-shot-twice-and-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/04\/mhluzi-man-shot-twice-and-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mhluzi man shot twice and killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is believed Sipho Mahlangu was first shot in his shoulder by an unknown assailant who <a href=\"http:\/\/Two kids brutally murdered\" target=\"_blank\">attacked <\/a>him after breaking a window and demanding to be let inside at about 03:00.<\/p>\n<p>According to neighbours, Sipho managed to get away and hide, but the suspect followed him and shot him again, this time in his chest.<\/p>\n<p>Residents ran outside to investigate the gunshots but the suspect had long escaped and<a href=\"http:\/\/Two kids brutally murdered\" target=\"_blank\"> Mhluzi Police <\/a>say there are no witnesses who saw the attacker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sipho was still alive when residents discovered him screaming and covered in blood. They found him naked, with just a condom on. He managed to tell them what happened and said that he doesn&#8217;t know the male that shot him. He then died while waiting for the ambulance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Mhluzi SAPS are investigating a <a href=\"http:\/\/Two kids brutally murdered\" target=\"_blank\">case of murder<\/a> and have appealed to the public for any information that could lead to an arrest. They can be contacted at 013 249 1021.<\/p>\n<p>Read related stories here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/23702\/mhluzi-burns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Mhluzi burns, man stoned at garage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/47000\/two-kids-brutally-murdered\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two kids brutally murdered<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/24561\/mhluzi-atm-thieves-got-r0\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mhluzi ATM thieves got R0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was shot twice and killed in what neighbours described as &#8220;mysterious circumstances&#8221; at his home at Extension 4, Mhluzi, during the early hours of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":47827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47826","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=47826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}