Goedemoed shooting

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]

Goedemoed shooting
LocationGoedemoed, South Africa
DateAugust 25, 1992
Attack type
Mass murder, murder-suicide
WeaponsTwo pistols
Deaths9 (including the perpetrator)
Injured4
PerpetratorL. S. Hasebeng

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.

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