Murder: Gardener Lourens Erasmus, Lourens Erasmus, 64, died overnight at the Pretoria state hospital after he was shot by armed attackers in Grove Street, Parktown on Tuesday 10Feb2015
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Lourens Erasmus, 64, Feb 11 2015: Mr Erasmus, owner of the Mantus gardening services, was climbing into his bakkie
on Tuesday-morning to go the a client in Parktown Estate, said his daughter Denise. He and his worker were working in this garden when
a black man came running around the bend in The Grove Street to hijack his bakkie. That same man reportedly also tried to hijack a BMW in Morgan Street earlier that morning,
according to the police: but was unable to drive the vehicle. He abandoned it and ran off with the police in hot pursuit. When the suspect saw Mr Erasmus next to the road
working on the garden, he fired a shot towards him which hit his bakkie. Erasmus fired back when the man didn't lower his gun but kept shooting at him. Erasmus fired shots towards the hijacker with his licensed handgun.
"My dad was hit four times, it's unclear if the suspect was injured, said the daughter. He was rushed to the General Hospital above Parktown and underwent emergency surgery.
He was put into the theatre at 10h45 and died at 00h06 Wednesday-morning, the heartbroken daughter said.
She was looking forward to her dad walking her to the altar at her wedding in a few months and now he's gone,' she said.
The doctors said they were trying everything they could to help but his injuries were just 'too serious'. I called my mom from the hospital.
We are all broken. " Just after Lourens Erasmus was shot, he called his daughter and said: "Babatjie ek is geskiet'... and those were his last words to her.
Denise said her dad was a joyful, loving man who spread joy all around him. He loved hunting and gardening.
He earned additional income above his small pension with gardening, she said. "People just started approaching him themselves when they saw his skills and the business just developed from there."
The police are investigating murder and attempted hijacking. Despite the fact that the police reportedly had been 'on his heels' after the attempted hijacking of the BMW, no-one was arrested.
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