Taxidermist kills two of the most wanted West-rand criminals

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http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuu...moses-20100824


It's a bit of a difficult article to translate, maybe an eng version will become available.

What it comes down to is: the guy was taken captive by house robbers and managed to kill two house robbers in a gun battle with his shotgun as they were fleeing. He got a 9mm bullet in the foot. Robbers used pistols and a R5.

Bende se moses



Die lyk van die rower wat gister in Randfontein doodgeskiet is, lê langs die motor van een van sy slagoffers. Sy makker se lyk is op die bestuurdersitplek. Foto: Amanda Roestoff

Amanda Roestoff

’n Taksidermis het gister twee van die Wes-Rand se mees gesoekte misdadigers doodgeskiet, terwyl hy self in die voet gewond is.

Nog twee vermeende lede van die bende wat binne drie dae vier rooftogte uitgevoer het, is vasgetrek.

Mnr. Jacques Fouché (36) van Randfontein het vertel hy het gister by sy huis in Firstraat, Green Hills, ’n kliënt, ene JJ van Mauritius, gehelp om opgestopte bokkoppe, velle en skedels na dié se Audi A4 te dra.

“Toe ons terugstap, het ek opgemerk hoe twee mans op ons afstap.

“Ek het in my bakkie ingebuk om die afstandbeheerknoppie te druk en die hek toe te maak, toe is hulle op ons.”

Die rowers het Fouché en JJ na die werkkamer agterin die erf geneem waar hulle ’n werker, ene Jacob, verskeie kere met die vuis toegetakel het.

Die drie mans moes op die vloer lê en hul hande is agter hul rug vasgebind.

Hulle is van waardevolle items gestroop.

“Nog twee mans het ingekom en ’n sak met ’n R5-geweer te voorskyn gebring.

Ek is gewaarsku om nie kanse te vat nie terwyl een rower die R5 voor my rondgeswaai het.

Hulle het my daarna alleen in die huis na die hoofslaapkamer gevat.”

Die kluis was toe reeds oopgesluit.

Die rowers wou weet waar Fouché geld en sy pistole versteek.

Fouché is die heeltyd met die R5 oor die kop gemoker terwyl hy vasgebind op sy bed aangehou is.

“Van die mans het skielik ingehardloop gekom en geskreeu hulle moet padgee.

Ek weet nie wat gebeur het nie, maar vermoed Jacob het dalk losgekom en oor die muur na die bure gespring om hulp te kry.

“Toe is ’n veiligheidsmaatskappy ontbied.”

Fouché het hom losgewikkel en ’n haelgeweer gegryp. Toe hy wou skiet, wou die geweer nie afgaan nie.

Met ’n tweede haelgeweer is hy by die huis uit. Twee van die rowers het teruggedraai en op hom losgebrand.

“Toe ek sien hulle kom terug, moes ek na die stoep toe hardloop en agter die heining skuiling vind.”

Fouché het van die stoep op die mans naby die Audi geskiet. Een het vanuit die motor op hom geskiet.

Op pad om agter sy bakkie te gaan skuil is hy in die regtervoet getref.

“Ek het bly terugskiet en daarna net agter die bakkie bly sit totdat die skote opgehou het.”

Die twee agterste vensters van die Audi A4 is flenters geskiet.

Een rower se lyk het buite die voertuig op die teerpad gelê. Sy makker s’n was op die bestuurdersitplek.

Volgens kapt. Appel Ernst, polisiewoordvoerder, het ao. Peet Venter, wat in die omgewing woon, vinnig gereageer toe hy die skietery hoor en polisielede ontbied.

“Nog twee rowers is in die veld en in die (naburige) meenthuiskompleks aangetref. Ons het twee 9 mm-pistole in die voertuig gevind.

Nog ’n 9 mm-pistool is in die veld en ’n R5-geweer in die meenthuiskompleks gevind.

“Hulle is beslis onder die mees gesoekte misdadigers in die streek,” het Ernst bygevoeg.

Fouché sal na verwagting vandag ’n operasie ondergaan om die 9 mm-koeël uit sy voet te laat verwyder.

Misdaadspoor

Dieselfde rowers het vroeër die oggend ’n vrou van Noordheuwel in Krugersdorp in haar huis oorval en van verskeie huishoudelike items en rekenaartoerusting beroof.

Dit is in die kattebak van ’n silwer Volvo op die skiettoneel gevind.

Volgens die polisie het dieselfde bende Sondag by ’n huis in Nightingalestraat in Greenhills toegeslaan en Maandag by Captain Liquor in Aureus, ook in Randfontein.

[Davidc]

The english version http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...bbers-20100824 what is interesting is that the shooter has not been charged.

Johannesburg - Two men were shot dead by the owner of a taxidermy business after they robbed him in Randfontein, Gauteng police said on Tuesday.

"The 36-year-old male business owner that had been tied up along with workers this morning, managed to free himself and ran outside to where the men were leaving the house with money they had stolen," police spokesperson Captain Appel Ernst said.

"Shots were fired and the owner killed two robbers with his own rifle."

One of the men was on the list of the 10 most wanted criminals in the West Rand, for house robbery.

Before being shot at about 10:30, the robbers had tried to escape in a car belonging to a taxidermy client, accompanied by two men waiting in a car on the opposite side of the road. They were all in their early thirties.

A policeman who lived a block away from the house heard the shots and ran to the scene, where he arrested two of the men.

Police recovered money and computer equipment from the client's car, as well as five firearms on the scene.

Charges of house robbery were being investigated and the men were expected to appear in the Randfontein Magistrate's Court soon.

The car that the alleged robbers used to drive to the business was linked to another house robbery on Tuesday morning in Noordheuwel, also on the West Rand.

In this robbery, four men had overpowered a woman at her friend's house and stolen a computer, money and a firearm.

No charges were laid against the business owner.

- SAPA

[Paul]

Well... he certainly stuffed up THEIR day!

[Thorkind]

Excellent work. Let's hope the rest of the week/month/year is filled with similar reports.

[Bushboy]

THe version I read on news 24 was very different, It made mention of a hunting rifle and that he fired on them as they drove away. Big difference between shooting them as they drive down the street and being involved in a 2 way shooting range. I wonder what was wrong with the first shotty? Or did he just clear the stoppage and continue with his first?

[Thorkind]

Baby steps. Just be grateful the media can sometimes tell the difference between and R5 and an AK nowadays. Don't expect too much when it comes to telling apart hunting rifles and shotguns.

[Bushboy]

You forgot R5, and machine gun and high powered rifle oh and my all time favorite "gun".

[Paul]

... and high powered rifle...

No, no... it's almost always a "high calibre rifle" whatever TF that might be

I swear, this media tribunal might just have it's uses after all...

[Bushboy]

No, no... it's almost always a "high calibre rifle"

Yup because we know how often banks are robbed/ cash vans knocked over with big bore rifles like 458 etc.

[Bushboy]

Paul, the problem with the media tribunal will be that the shotty used in this instance will now be labeled as "the evil weapon of the oppressor".
Ok, maybe a tad cynical.