{"id":8626,"date":"2013-08-07T06:33:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T06:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8626"},"modified":"2013-08-07T06:33:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T06:33:38","slug":"university-of-johannesburg-student-shot-outside-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8626","title":{"rendered":"University of Johannesburg student shot outside campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8371\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/UJ-APK-Campus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8371\" alt=\"Campus of the University of Johannesburg\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/UJ-APK-Campus-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/UJ-APK-Campus-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/UJ-APK-Campus.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campus of the University of Johannesburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A student was shot and wounded outside the University of Johannesburg&#8217;s Doornfontein campus, the institution said on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The university can confirm that a 30-year-old student has been shot in an attempted robbery outside the campus grounds at the Doornfontein campus,&#8221; said UJ spokesman Hermane Esterhuizen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The student is in a stable condition in hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident took place at 8:30pm on Tuesday. Esterhuizen said police was investigating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is alleged the male student had gone to get something to eat, and on his return was confronted by two men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Easterhuizen said this incident did not take place on the same campus where a hijacking was reported last week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday, a 23-year-old UJ student was hijacked and kidnapped by an armed man while parking her car in the parking lot of the Kingsway campus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man approached and pointed a firearm at her, and told her to move over to the passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man drove out of the campus to an empty parking lot where he tied her hands, put her in the boot of the car, and drove to an ATM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After giving the armed man her bank pin number, he left her in an open area in Eldorado Park, where she was later found.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, police arrested a man in Ennerdale, south of Johannesburg, in connection with the hijacking and kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 18-year-old man was allegedly found in possession of the hijacked car. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student was shot and wounded outside the University of Johannesburg&#8217;s Doornfontein campus, the institution said on Wednesday morning. &#8220;The university can confirm that a 30-year-old student has been shot in an attempted robbery outside the campus grounds at the Doornfontein campus,&#8221; said UJ spokesman Hermane Esterhuizen. &#8220;The student is in a stable condition in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;University of Johannesburg student shot outside campus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,4836,259,873],"class_list":["post-8626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-hermane-esterhuizen","tag-robbery","tag-university-of-johannesburg"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/UJ-APK-Campus.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626","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=8626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8627,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626\/revisions\/8627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}