{"id":304028,"date":"2021-05-11T20:33:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=304028"},"modified":"2021-05-11T20:33:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:33:51","slug":"woman-shot-during-attempted-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=304028","title":{"rendered":"Woman shot during attempted escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ni\u00ebl Terblanch\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A YOUNG woman from Walvis Bay was wounded in the arm when a member of the Namibian Police fired a shot at a man that attempted to escape from custody after making an appearance in the harbour town\u2019s Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shooting incident occurred after the man, who attempted to escape from police custody, made an appearance in court on a charge of murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the suspect requested the court orderlies at the Walvis Bay Magistrate\u2019s Court to take him to an automatic teller machine down the road from the court building to withdraw some cash.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said that the prisoner attempted to run away from a court orderly that was accompanying him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Woman shot during attempted escape\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4WVX-wB-qEQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>DANGEROUS STREETS: Bystanders assist the young woman that sustained a gunshot wound to a waiting ambulance in Walvis Bay\u2019s main street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The police officer fired a shot in the direction of the escaping prisoner and in the process, the bullet hit a young woman, who was walking along the harbour town\u2019s main street, in the upper left arm.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People that witnessed the incident said the prisoner was not handcuffed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the shot rang out the escaping prisoner stopped running and the police officer was able to re-arrest him on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After receiving first aid treatment on the spot, the young woman was transported to a local hospital for further medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ni\u00ebl Terblanch\u00e9 \u00a0 A YOUNG woman from Walvis Bay was wounded in the arm when a member of the Namibian Police fired a shot at a man that attempted to escape from custody after making an appearance in the harbour town\u2019s Magistrate\u2019s Court. \u00a0 The shooting incident occurred after the man, who attempted to escape &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":304030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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