{"id":8888,"date":"2013-08-10T20:26:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8888"},"modified":"2013-08-10T20:26:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T20:26:08","slug":"child-killed-in-coloured-gang-cross-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8888","title":{"rendered":"Child killed in Coloured gang cross-fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/crime-gun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5587\" alt=\"crime-gun\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/crime-gun-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/crime-gun-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/crime-gun.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A seven-year-old boy was shot dead when he and his mother were caught in crossfire in Atlantis, Cape Town, Western Cape police said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The young victim was accompanied by his mother when criminals opened fire, supposedly at another group of criminals, and [they] were both caught in the crossfire,&#8221; Lt-Col Andr\u00e8 Traut said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The boy&#8217;s mother was wounded in the neck and two men were also wounded in the shooting on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Many people have been questioned, and we will continue to question criminals until we find those responsible for the attack,&#8221; Traut said. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seven-year-old boy was shot dead when he and his mother were caught in crossfire in Atlantis, Cape Town, Western Cape police said on Saturday. &#8220;The young victim was accompanied by his mother when criminals opened fire, supposedly at another group of criminals, and [they] were both caught in the crossfire,&#8221; Lt-Col Andr\u00e8 Traut said. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8888\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Child killed in Coloured gang cross-fire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4983,4984,34,1363,40,399],"class_list":["post-8888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-atlantis","tag-child","tag-crime","tag-gangs","tag-murder","tag-western-cape"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/crime-gun.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888","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=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8889,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions\/8889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}