{"id":99779,"date":"2019-08-05T10:14:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T08:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=99779"},"modified":"2019-08-05T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T10:22:44","slug":"update-man-shot-midwater-heist-succumbs-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/08\/05\/update-man-shot-midwater-heist-succumbs-wounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Man shot in Midwater heist succumbs to his wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of armed bandits cold-bloodedly opened fire in the middle of public, while targeting a G4S transit vehicle, wounding three bystanders.<\/p>\n

The crowded garage was sent into a frenzied panic after a man refueling his vehicle was shot in his head, and a pregnant mother with her daughter were both wounded.<\/p>\n

Also read: Civilians shot in CIT heist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

It has been confirmed that the man died of his injuries, later in hospital. He has not yet been formally identified by his next of kin, but a murder docket has been opened.<\/p>\n

The two other victims have been identified as Ms Mariska Griffin and her daughter.<\/p>\n

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The Griffins’ vehicle, where a stray bullet entered through the roof.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They were both shot through the leg, but have since been discharged from hospital.<\/p>\n

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The bullet went straight through the roof and was lodged into the panel framing the windscreen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Innocent civilians were caught in the crossfire of a fatal cash-in-transit heist at the Engen Garage near Midwater Mall on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":99731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[10010,19736,12898,19735,19734,19727,10333],"class_list":["post-99779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-man-shot-and-killed-during-cash-in-transit-heist","tag-middelburg-news","tag-mother-and-daughter-shot-in-heist","tag-shooting-at-engen","tag-shooting-at-midwater-mall","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["local news","man shot and killed during cash in transit heist","middelburg news","mother and daughter shot in heist","shooting at engen","shooting at midwater mall","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99779","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=99779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}