{"id":178905,"date":"2024-08-20T15:59:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T13:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-off-duty-police-officer-arrested-for-shooting-civilian-to-death\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T13:59:03","slug":"ghana-off-duty-police-officer-arrested-for-shooting-civilian-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-off-duty-police-officer-arrested-for-shooting-civilian-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Off-Duty Police Officer Arrested for Shooting Civilian to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Police have arrested a ride-hailing driver, who was later revealed to be an off-duty police officer, for allegedly shooting and killing a man at Koans Estate near Kuntunse in Accra on Sunday, August 18, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The incident took place around 4 a.m. following an alleged confrontation between the victim, identified as Stanley Ahadzi (25), and General Constable Smith Gyeke over transport fare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;When Ahadzi arrived at the estate gate, a disagreement reportedly ensued over the fare charged by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408200172.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police have arrested a ride-hailing driver, who was later revealed to be an off-duty police officer, for allegedly shooting and killing a man at Koans Estate near Kuntunse in Accra on Sunday, August 18, 2024. The incident took place around 4 a.m. following an alleged confrontation between the victim, identified as Stanley Ahadzi (25), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4304,16783,6974,4508,4509,257,48444,10869,662,6855,254],"class_list":["post-178905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-civilian","tag-death","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-offduty","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-shooting","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}