'How I shot 5 robbers'

Necuno

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'How I shot 5 robbers'
By Lavern de Vries

A gun-slinging grandfather has told how he pursued a band of suspected robbers, stood on the bonnet of a bakkie, shot and killed two of them and wounded three.

Seated in his small office in the Brighton shopping complex in Kraafontein, 56-year-old security man Hennie Jacobs recounted his role in the car chase and shootouts in Kraaifontein on Wednesday.

He said although he thought it was a "fair fight", he felt sorry for the relatives of the dead men.

"I'm not very religious, but when I pray to whatever God tonight, I will ask that he look after the relatives of the men I killed. They were after all someone's son, brother or father."




Although he has been hailed by the Kraaifontein community as a hero, Jacobs said the real hero in Wednesday's drama was a resident who reported a blue Mazda - first spotted at the scene of a robbery on Tuesday - in the shopping complex.

"If it wasn't for him, we could have had a bloodbath involving shoppers."

The Mazda had been seen on Tuesday as a fruit and vegetable shop was robbed.

"As I was walking in the parking lot, I overheard a man saying that he had seen the blue vehicle at a robbery scene the day before," Jacobs said.

But the car sped off when a police van approached.

Jacobs went to his office and told his colleague that they could possibly thwart the suspected robbers' escape by blocking them off, so he grabbed the shotgun he had in his capacity as Boland Security's operations manager and the pair gave chase in his car.

They drove to Peerless Park, slowly checking all the side streets for any sign of the blue car.

"As we stopped at a stop street, a bakkie came up behind us so fast it nearly slammed into us. The bakkie then overtook us and we gave chase, because I assumed that the bakkie (occupants) knew the whereabouts of the blue car."

The bakkie had been driven to a footbridge in Peerless Park, close to the N1 highway.

As Jacobs and his unarmed colleague approached the vehicle, he saw that about 10 occupants had weapons protruding from their waistbands.

Within seconds, he heard a gunshot and reached into his car to grab his shotgun, he said.

The men then got out of the bakkie and tried to escape by running across the footbridge and while they were doing so, he heard another shot.

Leaving his colleague in the car, he then ran to the bakkie, jumped onto the bonnet and started shooting.

"I wasn't aiming, I could barely see them but I shot back in earnest."

After he had emptied his shotgun, he screamed at the men, warning them he would shoot if they ran.

"It was a psychological trick. I needed to scare them so that they wouldn't shoot. I also kept shouting at my colleague so that they could think that I wasn't alone."

A man then stopped at the scene and told Jacobs he was an off-duty police officer.

"He wouldn't get out of the car, so I asked him if he had more rounds for me, but he didn't."

Minutes later the police arrived and told Jacobs that he had wounded five men on the bridge - two of whom were dead.

"It wasn't about killing them, it was about survival," he said.

Jacobs, a Kraaifontein Shooting Club member, said that although he was not wearing a bulletproof vest, he wasn't afraid.

He assumed that the occupants of the blue Mazda were about to commit an armed robbery and were waiting in the parking lot for back-up from the white bakkie.

Local police said on Wednesday that a police constable had been shot in the neck after pursuing the Mazda.

"When the vehicle stopped near bushes, the occupants jumped out and fled the scene on foot. One of the suspects was arrested and shortly afterwards, several shots were fired from a passing white bakkie," said spokesperson Gerhard Niemand.

The constable was airlifted to hospital.

Two of the men Jacobs shot and wounded were arrested and are under police guard in hospital.

A third man was shot in the arm and arrested.

The others escaped by running across the bridge, hijacking a car and then abandoning it near a railway station.
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Surv0

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Awesome!!! Good going to Jacobs our local gunslinger...

we need more ppl with the ability to fight back...

feel absolutly nothing for the ppl who were shot and killed, he should killed all of them.
 
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armitage

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Ouch, i used to stay a few blocks away from there...
Quite a harsh place to live. We were robbed about 10 times in the seven years we stayed there.

Sadly Kraaifontein these days is squashed inside two squatter camps(bloekombos and wallacedene) with crime getting quite out of hand.
Luckily my parents sold their house just before it really got bad(check on gumtree sometime and see the amount of people selling huge properties there for cheap).
 
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killadoob

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Sounds like he had some sort of aimbot :p, 3 dead 2 injured from a shottie across a bridge!!! hacks i tell you !!!!!!!!!
 
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We rejoice when people die?? :eek:

What the hell..they are filthily scum and wud have probably murdered another hard working SA citizen..shud have shot all of them.

Thanks for fighting back Mr Jacobs, you made my day :D
 
medicnick83

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If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

Well done Jacobs - as for him being punished... what... are you stupid?
He did something right - if you don't want to do die for your crime, stick up a white flag and lay down or just don't do it at all.
 
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