Second of six injured victims dies after massacre in Afrikaner-owned shopJuly 31 2007 - PRETORIA, South Africa. An Afrikaner woman who was shot in the head during an armed attack by five armed black men against an Afrikaner-owned superette in a Pretoria suburb has died.
All the victims in this massacre were unarmed - and all were Afrikaners. Nothing was robbed - but police insist on referring to it as a 'botched robbery'. Of course nobody has been arrested.
The second person to die from the attack, Mrs Wilma Venter, was among at least six people shot during then attack on Dealz Family Store in Claremont last Wednesday. This police claim also is uncertain: several bystanders said at least 11 people had been taken to hospital for treatment, including a small child.
This confusion could have arisen because earlier, an Afrikaner mother and her young child had been killed in a hit-and-run accident on the same corner where the supermarket is located.
Mrs Venter died on Friday -- only a few hours after Gert Jansen van Rensburg had been declared brain-dead in Pretoria Academic Hospital and taken off life-support machines. Mr Jansen van Rensburg was a true hero: he had been shot execution-style in the back of the head by one of the five attackers whilehe was trying to drag the injured Mrs Venter to safety.
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http://crimexposouthafrica.net/crimexp/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=1&id=1&Itemid=2Mr Jansen van Rensburg also saved three Afrikaner children, shoving them from the store as he saw the five-man attack team run in and jad start shooting down customers indiscriminately.
The Afrikaner, already injured, then still saved his injured fiance, Ms Patrys Claasen, by dragging her and Mrs Venter out of the attackers' line of fire. He was then shot through the back of the head, execution-style, as he was dragging the two women behind an ice-cream fridge.
The attackers also critically injured customer Jacqueline Grobbelaar when they opened fire on customers and staff. Police claim it was a 'botched robbery', however in spite of the fact that the entire shop was strewn with helpless, bleeding, seriously injured customers, these 'robbers' took nothing at all - not even a chocolate, and indeed did not even try to rob the helpless victims. They simply walked out again.
Cashier Aletta Koen and her boss Paula Oosthuizen were shot in the legs while Ms Claasen was shot in the buttocks and hand during the incident.
Pretoria Academic Hospital spokeswoman Fredah Kobo confirmed on July 30 2007 that Mrs Venter had died.
She declined to comment any further on Mrs Venter's death. Describing Grobbelaar's condition, Kobo said that 'while she was still in a critical condition, she was progressing well. Her condition has improved since she was brought into the hospital," said Kobo.
Police inspector Paul Ramaloko said that 'as soon as they received the report from the hospital certifying the death, they would add a second charge of murder to the case. No arrests had been made. Anyone with information on the identity or the whereabouts of the robbers can contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111.'
o The original article referring to Mrs Venter's death appeared on page 6 of Pretoria News on July 31, 2007