This is IOL.co.za’s version of what happened:
A Woodhill man is in a critical condition in hospital, following a shooting during a house robbery on Tuesday, Pretoria police said.
Spokesperson Captain Phillip Lekoantsane said robbers entered a house in Mooikloof Gardens around 2am where a couple was asleep.
“The couple heard a noise and woke up. They saw a man who had a 9mm pistol – and who opened fire on them.”
The occupant of the house – in his forties – was seriously injured and he was in a critical but stable condition in hospital, said Lokoantsane.
The woman in the house escaped with minor injuries.
Lokoantsane said the robbers fled with a cellphone.
This is what really happened:
What the article didn’t say was that the man, Jannie Fourie, was shot nine times after he attacked the two black robbers who were about to murder his wife and two young sons. The savages were of course armed with a 9mm pistol and a revolver.
Jannie’s one son, Brendan (3) had trouble falling asleep that night and Bernice, Jannie’s wife, was with him when the robbers attacked. They tried to enter Brendan’s room, but Bernice slammed the door shut and pushed against it with all her might in a desperate attempt to prevent them from entering her son’s bedroom. The robbers then opened fire on the door and a bullet hit Bernice in the elbow. Luckily it was only a flesh wound.
Jannie (39), who was sleeping in the main bedroom at the time, heard his wife’s screams followed by a volley of gun shots and ran into the hall. He saw two men standing at the door of his son’s bedroom. The robbers also saw him and started shooting. Fourie was unarmed but that didn’t stop him from protecting his family and he attacked the robbers. A scuffle broke out in which he repeatedly hit the robbers in the face. At one stage he took hold of the one robber’s gun to prevent the guy from shooting him the head. The robber pulled the trigger and the bullet ripped Jannie’s middle finger off, but he kept on hitting the guy. Jannie reported that he think one of his punches must have dropped this guy. The second robber tried to enter the room of his youngest son Keanan (15 months) and Jannie grabbed the guy and continued to pummel him with his fist. By this time Fourie had already been shot four times. He would have kept on fighting, but the robber shot him in both his knees and he fell in the doorway to his son’s bedroom. The robber tried to execute him but at the last second Jannie turned around and was shot in the stomach. The Robbers then fled with only a cell phone and a wallet.
He was shot nine times in total. He was hit in the shoulder, arm, hand, stomach and both his knees and lost a finger.
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