By Tando Mfengwana13 October 2006
A 53 year old woman has been shot dead by attackers who allegedly wanted her bag.
Gillian Hurvitz and her husband had been visiting their son’s future in-laws in Gresswold, Johannesburg.
As the two were walking to their car, which was parked in a closed-off area, Hurvitz was grabbed and an assailant tried to snatch her bag. As she tried to escape she was shot in the neck and died at the scene.
The Star quotes Police spokesperson Captain Cheryl Engelbrecht as saying officers apprehended one of the suspects near the scene.
The suspect led detectives to two other assailants; Engelbrecht said that at the time of the arrested they did not believe that they had right people. But then the murder weapon was found in their possession.
The woman’s son, Greg Hurvitz is quoted as saying that his mother had not resisted her attackers and that the shooting had not been provoked.
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