{"id":10408,"date":"2026-01-08T02:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/10408\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T02:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:26:14","slug":"man-killed-toddler-injured-in-johannesburg-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/10408\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed, toddler injured in Johannesburg shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 38-year-old man was shot dead and a two-year old boy was injured in Fordsburg, Johannesburg, on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gauteng police spokesperson Lt-Col Mavela Masondo said the provincial police\u2019s tracing team has been tasked with the tracing of the two suspects allegedly involved in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He said the suspects approached the victims and one of them allegedly fired several shots towards the man, who was carrying the boy. The suspects fled in a dark coloured Mazda 2. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe victim was declared dead on the scene by paramedics and the child was taken to hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Masondo said police were investigating a case of murder and attempted murder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe motive for the shooting is under investigation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TimesLIVE <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old man was shot dead and a two-year old boy was injured in Fordsburg, Johannesburg, on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[52],"tags":[7253,7255,7254,131],"class_list":["post-10408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa","tag-fordsburg","tag-mavela-masondo","tag-murder-and-attempted-murder","tag-south-africa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}