A man that was shot through the brain in a robbery and left for dead on Thursday, died later on Sunday.
Jan (Kleinjan) Byles’s (35) organs already stopped working earlier and only his heartbeat kept him alive.
“He was shot once in the neck and the bullet went through his brain,” his father, Jan Byles Sr. said.
“The bullet exploded in his brain. It was a fatal shot.”
Byles Jr. celebrated his birthday last Saturday and the next day moved in to a new home in Northwold in northern Johannesburg.
He and his girlfriend, Elizma Jordaan (28), had a braai on Thursday night at home when neighbors informed them that they had heard a noise in the bushes next to his house. They found nobody there.
“Jan took his revolver from the safe and kept it with him,” said Jordaan.
He opened the security gate at about 23:30 to go outside for a smoke when two robbers arrived. One shot him.
They beat Jordaan and tied her hands with ropes.
“I tried to go to Jan, but they took me away and asked where the safe was.
“They got it and asked where the keys were. It was on the table,” said Jordaan.
The robbers also found a second safe and wanted the keys for it.
Jordaan and Byles Jr. were in a relationship for about a week. She knew nothing about the safes.
A robber hit her with the barrel of his gun on the forehead and tied her legs with her scarf. She then pretended that she was unconscious.
The robbers stole Byles’s revolver, two rifles, two mobile phones and a television.
After they left, Jordaan untied herself and called the neighbors.
According to Jordaan, they had to wait a long time for the ambulance and the police.
She answered a few questions at home before she went to the hospital, but an official statement was not taken from her.
Source – Netwerk24
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