A robber, previously charged with murder in the same street, stabbed a man thirteen times with a knife in a house in Kafue Street, Allanridge Tuesday morning, June 2, 2015.
Both were in a critical condition in the Pelonomi Hospital in Bloemfontein. The attacker, Melato Justice Motoa (21), died of a head wound on Wednesday June 3, 2015.
According to friends of the Jacobs couple, Chris Jacobs (59), unlocked a security gate, which separates the bedrooms from the rest of the house, early Tuesday morning. He saw someone moving in the house.
“What are you doing here?” he shouted.
The next moment Motoa stormed Jacobs and began stabbing him with a knife. Jacobs fought back and at one point managed to obtain a concealed handgun.
The men were wrestling in the house until Jacobs was able to fire a shot.
He shot Motoa in the head and the attacker fell in the pantry.
Lillette, Jacobs’s wife, meanwhile fled the house and a passer-by, Owen Hechter (19), heard her cries for help. He went with her into the house.
Hechter said the attacker was lying in the pantry and a bloodied Jacobs sat on a chair in the kitchen.
He said Jacobs lost a lot of blood and although he sat upright, he was not aware of what was going on.
Hechter called the police and emergency services who were quickly on the scene.
Police officers and other residents, who also arrived at the house, immediately recognized the unconscious attacker.
The attacker was apprehended end of 2013, when another resident of Kafue Street was gruesomely murdered in her bath.
Motoa and another suspect were apprehended for the murder of Eleonor Dorfling (82). The other suspect escaped while in custody and was never arrested again.
According to police Jacobs’s condition is stable, and he is out of danger.
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