{"id":913615,"date":"2022-01-05T13:57:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T13:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/05\/man-gunned-down-in-another-suspected-gang-related-incident-in-gqeberha\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T13:57:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T13:57:54","slug":"man-gunned-down-in-another-suspected-gang-related-incident-in-gqeberha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/man-gunned-down-in-another-suspected-gang-related-incident-in-gqeberha\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gunned down in another suspected gang-related incident in Gqeberha"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rustenburg – A 25-year-old man was gunned down in a suspected gang-related shooting in Helenvale, Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Police spokesperson Captain Andre Beetge said witnesses heard a shot being fired in Deverill Road, Helenvale, at 3am.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Due to the darkness, they could not see anything, but by 06:00, they found the body of a young male on the sidewalk. He was identified as the 25-year-old Keenan Francis, and it was found that he had sustained one gunshot wound to his head.<\/p>\n

“The motive for the killing is unknown, but it is suspected to be gang-related. A murder case was opened at Gelvandale SAPS,” he said.<\/p>\n

In October last year, a number of gang-related shooting incidents were reported in Gqeberha and Kariega in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the Free State, police said a 47-year-old man allegedly stabbed a 46-year-old man to death in Botshabelo following a fight over a woman.<\/p>\n

“A fight between two African males involved in a romantic triangle ended badly on New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is alleged that the 47-year-old murder suspect arrived at his girlfriend’s house in F-Section at Botshabelo and found the 46-year-old deceased with the lady,” spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Thabo Covane said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“A fight broke out, and the suspect stabbed the deceased in the chest with a knife. The victim was rushed to the nearby hospital in an ambulance, where he succumbed to the injury.”<\/p>\n

He said the 47-year-old man was arrested on January 2. He appeared in the Botshabelo Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday and was released on warning.<\/p>\n

The case against him was postponed to February 7 for further investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rustenburg – A 25-year-old man was gunned down in a suspected gang-related shooting in Helenvale, Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday. Police spokesperson Captain Andre Beetge said witnesses heard a shot being fired in Deverill Road, Helenvale, at 3am. “Due to the darkness, they could not see anything, but by 06:00, they found the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}