GAUTENG. – A man, Mr Dube, was fatally wounded on Sunday shortly after midnight during an armed robbery on a smallholding on Hebron Road in Haakdoornboom, Pretoria.
Captain Johan van Dyk of the police told Nuusflits three suspected men, one armed with a firearm, entered the property at approximately 00:15. The complainant was in her room when she heard sounds at her door. When she investigated, she was confronted by the armed suspect. She sustained an injury to her forehead and had to receive medical treatment at a hospital.
Money and cellphones were demanded from the residents by the suspects before they moved to the other three rooms to also steal money and cellphones. When the suspects entered Mr Dube's room, he resisted and refused to hand over his possessions. He was then shot twice in the lower back. The suspects continued to search the room and fled the scene on foot with Dube's cellphone. Dube was taken to a hospital, where he later succumbed to his gunshot wounds. His wife was traumatised in the incident.
Police seized two empty cartridges found at the scene. These will be submitted to the forensic science laboratory for ballistic analysis as part of the investigation and evidence. The investigation is ongoing.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
