Man shot by robbers lies bleeding for hours
CRITICALLY wounded when he was shot in the face by a gang of robbers, an electrical engineer lay alone in his bed, bleeding profusely, for six hours until he was found by a relative and rushed to a Pretoria hospital.
Willie van Zyl, 58, who was attacked during the early hours of yesterday morning, was rescued by his uncle Johan Pretorius, with whom he had been celebrating Christmas only days before.
Van Zyl, who was due to move out of his Leeufontein estate home this week, was attacked while in his bedroom.
It is believed that the fourman gang, who were armed with handguns, gained access to the heavily secured Cullinan Road property by cutting a hole in a fence in the back garden. Making their way to Van Zyl’s bedroom at the back of the house, the suspects waited outside before they smashed the window, overpowered Van Zyl and then shot him in the head at point-blank range.
Blood smears across the walls, torn curtains, overturned furniture and smashed belongings bore testimony to the struggle between Van Zyl and his attackers.
The blood-soaked mattress showed where Van Zyl had lain as his attackers carried out his possessions.
A distraught Pretorius yesterday said: “As I came around the corner I saw chaos. There were appliances lying in the garden and glass outside the bedroom window.” he said.
Cautiously walking around outside the house, fearing that the attackers were still on the property, Pretorius spotted his nephew through the smashed bedroom window.
“I could not believe it. I thought he was dead. There was so much blood. I have never seen that much blood before.”
Climbing through the window, Pretorius was shocked when Van Zyl began to talk to him, pleading for help.
“I get sick when I think of how I found him and think about how he lay there for hours in all that blood and pain calling for help,” said Pretorius.
A case of house robbery and attempted murder was being investigated.
Several things, including a cellphone, were stolen.
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