Goedemoed shooting

Goedemoed shooting
Location Goedemoed, South Africa
Date August 25, 1992
Attack type
Mass murder, murder-suicide
Weapons Two pistols
Deaths 9 (including the perpetrator)
Non-fatal injuries
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, 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

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