Attempted hijacking in Benoni Backfires...pardon the pun.

Emailed received explaining an attempted High Jack incident as follows:

Die ouers het geld by 'n bank in East Rand Mall getrek enBrentwoordpark toe gery. Dis waar alles toe gebeur het. Die voertuig is in Lakeside Mall gekry. Weereens het iemand in die bank gesien hoeveel geld hulle trek en hul makkers laat weet. Daar was 3 van hulle, een dood, een gewond en een heavy getraumatiseer, shame.

The husband and wife withdrew money from the bank and someone inside let the robbers know that a huge sum was drawn. The three robbers then followed the couple to their house in an Audi.

Attached are a crime scene taken by the victims of an attempted hijacking in Benoni. While returning home, the husband and wife were blocked in in their driveway by a white Audi with three armed black males. Luckily, their son was home at the time and in an effort to protect his parents, he opened up with his personal firearm on the three robbers, emptying his entire mag - 17 rounds

He hit one of them square in the head - dead, the second one he injured critically, and it seems the driver was only slightly wounded and managed to drive off with his buddies. They recovered the Audi in a parking garage of a shopping centre not far away. From the photos it becomes quite apparent what damage the shooter inflicted on the robbers - one poor armed robber lies dead in the Audi, ag shame!

According to police, the shooter single-handedly took out one of the armed-robbery gangs that had been terrorising the neighbourhood for cars four weeks prior to the incident.

And according to the family, they have only praise for all the police officers that were involved in this incident. They say the police acted highly professionally and went out of their way to assist the distressed family. This is clearly a prime example that many police officers in this country are still willing to do their jobs and to go that extra mile to help those in need!