{"id":81094,"date":"2018-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/81094\/man-op-kort-afstand-doodgeskiet-skuldige-loop-vry\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T13:59:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T11:59:30","slug":"man-op-kort-afstand-doodgeskiet-skuldige-loop-vry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/05\/11\/man-op-kort-afstand-doodgeskiet-skuldige-loop-vry\/","title":{"rendered":"What really happened when Gerhard Coetzer was shot and killed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two versions of what happened on 27 April when Gerhard Coetzer (29) was killed at a house in Walter Sisulu Street.<\/p>\n

Police are seemingly still baffled about what exactly transpired on that day.<\/p>\n

Version 1:<\/h4>\n

The first version is that of Phillip de Klerk. He alleges that they had a party at the house, heard a gunshot and saw Gerhard jump up, run and fall. He died on the spot.<\/p>\n

Mr De Klerk also told the media the same version when asked about the events.<\/p>\n

He said that he assumed that robbers was responsible for Gerhard\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Version 2:<\/h4>\n

Gerhard\u2019s wife, Bianca, has a completely different version of events on the day.<\/p>\n

She told www.mobserver.co.za that the story about the robbers was a lie concocted by the group of people present on the scene.<\/p>\n

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What really happened on 27 April, when Gerhard Coetzer was shot and killed?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mrs Coetzer said that when they arrived at the party, the people present were already using alcohol.<\/p>\n

One man in the group had a gun in his hand. He was allegedly playing with the gun and had a holster strapped around his waist.<\/p>\n

Mrs Coetzer said that she was sitting with her back to the group of people when the first shot was fired. The bullet hit a window.<\/p>\n

She turned around to take her three year old son from the pool when the second shot was fired.<\/p>\n

In the seconds that followed, her husband jumped up, ran a couple of metres and collapsed.<\/p>\n

Mrs Coetzer said that she ran to her husband to try and help him. The person who was previously playing with his gun grabbed her, prevented her from reaching her husband, and said that he would take care of her and her children.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was told to say that he was shot by robbers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mrs Coetzer said that her son began to scream hysterically.<\/p>\n

A person who rents a flat on the same property, recalled how someone came banging on her door, shouting for her to call an ambulance.<\/p>\n

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She went outside and felt for a pulse but realised that Gerhard was already dead.<\/p>\n

Hendrik de Jager, who was also on the scene, collapsed after learning of Gerhard\u2019s death. He was treated on the scene by ER24 paramedics.<\/p>\n

Gerhard\u2019s brother, Riaan Badenhorst, said that he found it strange that no one has been arrested for his brother\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

He is very upset about rumors that the people on the scene tried to conceal the truth with \u201ca lie about robbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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www.mobserver.co.za<\/strong>\u00a0can confirm that\u00a0none of the people present\u00a0on the scene were tested for gun residue on their hands.<\/p>\n

There are allegations that the person who played with the gun, were not in possession of a valid licence.<\/p>\n

Mr Badenhorst has said that he has learned from other family members that they have seen the man bragging with the same gun on previous occasions.<\/p>\n

It is unclear what happened to the gun. There were rumors that the man who fired the shots, got rid of it shortly after the incident.<\/p>\n

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No one has been arrested for the murder as of yet. The family of Mr Coetzer fears that nothing will come of the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The family of a father of two, who was shot and killed at close range, are pleading for justice after the person who shot him, has still not been charged.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":81095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Daleen Naude","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8319,11462,11463,1713,21966,9339,11464],"class_list":["post-81094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime-in-middelburg","tag-gerhard-coetzer","tag-gun-shot","tag-killed","tag-middelburg","tag-shot-and-killed","tag-walter-sisulu-street"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["crime in Middelburg","gerhard coetzer","gun shot","killed","middelburg","shot and killed","walter sisulu street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81094","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=81094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}