{"id":10572,"date":"2013-09-23T14:18:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T14:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10572"},"modified":"2013-09-23T14:18:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T14:18:35","slug":"free-state-metro-cop-held-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10572","title":{"rendered":"Free State metro cop held for murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10573\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/smithfield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10573\" alt=\"Smithfield in the Free State\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/smithfield-300x215.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/smithfield-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/smithfield.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smithfield in the Free State<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Bloemfontein metro policeman has been arrested for allegedly shooting a man dead near a tavern in Smithfield, Free State police said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 11pm on Sunday, a group of men were at the tavern when an argument broke out, Sergeant Yanga Ngcukana said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The suspect decided to run out of the tavern but he was chased and stones were thrown at him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man fired several shots, and one of them hit a 35-year-old man, killing him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shortly afterwards, police found the metro officer running barefoot, and he claimed he was on his way to a police station to report the shooting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man will appear in the Smithfield Magistrate&#8217;s Court soon to face a murder charge. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bloemfontein metro policeman has been arrested for allegedly shooting a man dead near a tavern in Smithfield, Free State police said on Monday. Around 11pm on Sunday, a group of men were at the tavern when an argument broke out, Sergeant Yanga Ngcukana said. &#8220;The suspect decided to run out of the tavern but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10572\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free State metro cop held for murder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1176,6429,40,6430],"class_list":["post-10572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-free-state","tag-metro-policeman","tag-murder","tag-smithfield"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/smithfield.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10574,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions\/10574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}