{"id":66428,"date":"2017-05-08T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/66428\/shooting-death-in-boncker-street\/"},"modified":"2017-05-09T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T08:25:31","slug":"shooting-death-in-boncker-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/05\/08\/shooting-death-in-boncker-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting death in Boncker Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police responded to the scene at 37 Boncker Street around 22:00 when it was reported that a gunshot had been fired.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival they found the body of a man inside a blue Opel Kadet parked at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>On inspection police found Mr Kaule with a single bullet wound to his head, next to his ear.<\/p>\n<p>He was declared dead by ER24 paramedics at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A firearm with ammunition was also found at the scene and was taken in by officers from the Local Criminal Record Centre for ballistic tests.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed that Mr Kaule resided at the address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local police have opened an inquest into the shooting death of Mr Mandla Kaule (36) in Boncker Street on Saturday night 29 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":66528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Gerhard Rheeder","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66428","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\/66428","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=66428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}