•His wife was unable to get their rifle from their locked gun-safe during the attack.. and after the seriously injured Pitout ‘played dead’, one black man still kicked him in the face and then shot him in the chest. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Man-maak-of-hy-dood-is-maar-rower-skiet-hom-in-bors-20100928
Alta Snyman of Beeld newspaper reports that 35-year-old Coenie Pitout, who works as a sales representative for a fertiliser-company, pretended to be dead after he was shot and stabbed by an unknown number of black men who had invaded the family home in Koster.
Pitout, the father of two little girls, is in serious condition in a local hospital, where he is awaiting surgery to remove two bullets.
The incident occurred at around 02:30 on Sunday when Mrs Tania Pitout, 33, woke up from a noise. The family had watched TV on Sunday night and the children had fallen asleep in the living room. They had only moved into the house six weeks earlier.His brother-in-law Justus Jones told Beeld that Coenie got up to investigate. "Tania wanted to go and have a look but just before reaching the kitchen-door she felt uneasy and turned back to fetch Coenie,' he aid."He believed that it was probably one of the kids and didn't even take his gun.' Just as he reached the hallway leading to the kitchen he was shot at point-blank range - the shot was so close that his face was blackened, and the shot strafed his cheek and shot off half-an-ear.The injured Coenie didn't hesitate: he attacked the gunman who dropped the weapon, which was then picked up by a second attacker while a third man rushed into the fray and stabbed Coenie with a knife in his right-side. He was shot a second time, this time in the left-side, said his brother-in-law. Meanwhile the girls woke up and little Antoné managed to reach her mom in the hallway while Imké was grabbed by one of the gunmen.
•“Coenie tore his daughter from the man's grip and shoved her down the hallway. Tania ran with the girls to the living room, locking the door behind her - trying to get the GUN FROM THE SAFE - but couldn't.She then broke the window with a hairspray-bottle and fled with the children,' said Jones. She fetched help from the neighbours.
Meanwhile their injured dad noted that two of the attackers tried to flee through the livingroom window where the burglar-bars had been bent open earlier. One of the gunmen then loomed up behind the injured, unarmed Afrikaner and shot him through the left shoulder. Pitout fell on his back and pretended to be dead, praying that the terror 'would end', said Jones. The black man then walked up to him, kicked him in the face and shot him in the chest. That shot broke one of his ribs and he now needs surgery to remove two bullets.
"Coenie has lost an awful lot of blood. The doctor will operate as soon as he gets a bit stronger,' said Jones.
•The family cannot understand why the injured Coenie kept being attacked, stabbed and shot while the attackers could have fled at any time – he posed no threat to them whatsoever. The black men never spoke to him at all - and did not make any demands for money or car-keys or whatever.
The family was also attacked in the previous home they had lived in - and the only things stolen then were Tania's car-keys, he said. The three black males who attacked Pitout were described as 'very sturdily built'. SAPS spokesman Lt-col Lesego Metsi merely 'confirmed the attack'. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Man-maak-of-hy-dood-is-maar-rower-skiet-hom-in-bors-20100928
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