Goedemoed shooting
| Goedemoed shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | , South Africa |
| Date | August 25, 1992 |
Attack type | Mass murder, murder-suicide |
| Weapons | Two pistols |
| Deaths | 9 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 4 |
| Perpetrator | L. S. Hasebeng |
The Goedemoed shooting was a mass murder that occurred at the prison complex in Goedemoed, a town in Orange Free State, South Africa on August 25, 1992, when police constable L. S. Hasebeng killed eight people and wounded four others, most of them fellow police officers, before committing suicide.[1][2][3][4][5]
Victims[]
- Tseliso George, police assistant
- Constable S. Gabriel Lekhula
- Cynthia Lekhula, wife of Gabriel Lekhula
- Phalisa Lekhula, 4, daughter of Gabriel and Cynthia Lekhula
- Ernestina Mile, 21, daughter of Cynthia Lekhula
- Mavis Mile, 17, daughter of Cynthia Lekhula
- Adjutant officer Chris E. Schutte, commander of Goedemoed police
- Vakele Tyu, police assistant
Those wounded were constable Lucas Musi, police assistant Pakiso Ramarumo, captain Bettie van Wyk, and eight-year-old Thobela Dumayi.
References[]
- ^ S. African Officer Kills 8, Then Self, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (August 26, 1992)
- ^ PC kills eight in shooting spree, New Straits Times (August 26, 1992) (p.23)
- ^ Ons Korrespondent Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine, Beeld (August 26, 1992)
- ^ Slagter moes nie geweet het van ondersoek na verkragting Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine, Beeld (August 27, 1992)
- ^ Tydelike hulp beveel ná slagting van SAP-lede Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine, Beeld (August 27, 1992)
External links[]
- Held vertel van berserker se spoor van moord, Die Burger (August 26, 1992)
- Vader sterf vlak voor sy seun in koeël--slagting Polisieman laat streep lyke, pleeg selfmoord, Die Burger (August 26, 1992)
- Ondersoek kom ná afgryslike moorde, Die Burger (August 26, 1992)
- Gewonde maak of sy dood is; ontkom, Die Burger (August 26, 1992)
- Berserker SAP-lid mog nie wis van ondersoek, Die Burger (August 27, 1992)
- Nuus van verkrag-klag het SAP-lid glo laat skiet, Die Burger (August 27, 1992)
- Geweld, Die Burger (August 29, 1992)
- Koeël vlieg rakelings verby SAP-lid en slaan in muur vas, Beeld (August 26, 1992)
- Koeël skiet gate in sy trui, maar mis kaptein, Beeld (August 26, 1992)
- Ek kon voel hoe die koeëls in my vasslaan, Beeld (August 26, 1992)
Categories:
- 1992 crimes in South Africa
- Mass murder in 1992
- Mass shootings in South Africa
- Deaths by firearm in South Africa
- Murder–suicides in Africa
- Orange Free State
- Massacres in South Africa
- August 1992 events in Africa
- 1990s murders in South Africa
- 1992 murders in Africa
- 1992 mass shootings
- 1990s mass shootings in Africa