{"id":53841,"date":"2026-03-25T07:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=53841"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:10:04","slug":"suspects-killed-shootout-police-yeoville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/03\/25\/suspects-killed-shootout-police-yeoville\/","title":{"rendered":"Four suspects killed in shootout with police in Yeoville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Four suspects have been killed in a shoout out in Yeolville in Johannesburg. <\/p>\n<p>One other suspect was injured in the shootout with police on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the suspects were under surveillance when they were following a potential victim home from the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The group tried to evade police, which led to a high-speed chase when the shootout ensued. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-shootout\">Shootout<\/h2>\n<p>Police spokesperson Captain Tintswalo Sibeko said officers are busy combing the scene. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cActive crime scene at Yeoville. Four suspects were fatally wounded, and one was injured. Three firearms recovered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were linked to a syndicate targeting travellers at airports, following them to their homes and robbing them. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is a developing story<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p>Add The Citizen as a Preferred Source on Google and follow us on Google News to see more of our trusted reporting in Google News and Top Stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#suspects #killed #shootout #police #Yeoville<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four suspects have been killed in a shoout out in Yeolville in Johannesburg. One other suspect was injured in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53843,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53841\/revisions\/53843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}