Johan Schoultz shot, injured at Morgenzon farm

Johan Frederick Schoultz, farmer, Tweedraai, Morgenzon: shot in neck by 3 black men - baby son and wife inside homestead - nothing robbed Dec 7 2010 http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Rower-skiet-boer-met-n-jaggeweer-20101208



Buks Viljoen of Beeld newspaper reports that 32-year-old cattlefarmer Johan Frederick Schoultz on farm Witbank, Tweedraai, Morgenzon near Amersfoort is in ‘serious condition’ at a Secunda hospital after he was shot on December 7 2010 by ‘robbers’. One stood right over him and shot him in the neck with a .303 hunting rifle. His dad Johan senior said it was “God’s miracle that he wasn’t killed. No God-fearing human being would do such a thing to another person.’

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Schoultz jr. was ambushed at around 20:40 at his homestead front door with the attackers hiding behind a garden wall nearby and immediately firing at him with the hunting rifle. Initial reports stated that the attackers had demanded that the farmer hand over his guns but that he’d told them he ‘didn’t have any’.

The young farmer yelled at wife Estelle, 30 to go and hide in the room with their seven-month old baby son Rowan while the three black men stormed towards him – this time shooting him at close range in the neck. When they tried to shoot him again the gun failed to go off. While the attackers started fussing with the gun its cartridge-case fell out – and then they fled without ‘robbing’ anything. Still, Beeld newspaper describes it as a robbery. The SAPS said they are investigating attempted murder.

He collapsed at the front door and his wife dragged him inside while she phoned her father-in-law who lives about 4km away from them. Scores of farmers were on the scene without just minutes and mounted an organised search party – made difficult by a sudden rain-storm. The SAPS picked up .308 cartridge casings and the .303-magazine with three cartridges at the scene. A ‘suspected person’ was spotted on a neighbouring farm but the SAPS took too long to locate him.

•http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Rower-skiet-boer-met-n-jaggeweer-20101208
•http://www.nuus24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Drie-soek-na-aanval-op-boer-20101209
also:

•Farmer Hein & Hardus Aucamp injured, fierce gunfight with attackers – shoots one dead http://www.nuus24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Boer-deur-aanvallers-geskiet-20100825
•Farmer Koos Daffeu(46)hunted down like animal, shot dead, Limpopo http://www.nuus24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Boer-gejaag-op-sy-plaas-geskiet-20100803
•Farmer Gert Lange(67) Vaalbank, Bethlehem attacked for second time July 23 2010 http://www.nuus24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Boer-tweede-keer-in-huis-oorval-20100723-2