On Wednesday, men pretending to ask for water and cigarettes stabbed and robbed two elderly brothers living in Ocean View, Cape Town.
, before one of the brothers, James Geldenhuis, 73, was rushed to the hospital, he told a relative what happened.
‘He asked us to take out our phones and record so that if he doesn’t make it, his statement can be sent to the police. It was a robbery; James was standing outside when one of the suspects asked for water and cigarettes,’ he told theHe then went inside the house while his brother was sitting in the living room, and four men allegedly entered the house and stabbed the 83-year-old.
‘We could see he tried to open the door by the bloody handprints on the wall, but he collapsed next to his brother.’that the brothers had big hearts and didn’t mind sharing what they had with others, and he wasn’t surprised that they were helping people in need of water. According to Captain van Wyk, SAPS members received a murder-in-progress complaint and arrived to find ambulance services and two males lying on the ground. Paramedic personnel informed the members that one of the males, identified as the 84-year-old, had already passed away.
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