{"id":16547,"date":"2023-08-05T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=16547"},"modified":"2023-08-05T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T11:00:02","slug":"man-shoots-a-suitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/05\/man-shoots-a-suitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shoots a suitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Yang Ater Yang<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Police in Lakes State is investigating a case of shooting of man who allegedly impregnated a girl and later promised to marry her.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at Alau-agaap cattle camp in Rumbek East County on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, Mr. Thon Marual Kau was reportedly shot and critically wounded by the brother of the girl, is still in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation revealed that the motive behind the man&#8217;s shooting was due to his act of impregnating and eloping the perpetrator&#8217;s sister.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesperson in Lakes State, Maj. Elijah Mabor Makuac, told the No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper that the suspect has been identified as Mr. Thon Marual Kau, a brother to the girl.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to the information we received, the victim engaged a girl, and he was making arrangements to conduct an official marriage. But he was shot on the way while traveling to collect his cattle for marriage by his brother-in-law,&#8221; the police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is at large, and security forces are still pursuing him for investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The girl was impregnated and eloped, but the issue was discussed and settled, and the man agreed to marry her.<\/p>\n<p>The man was shot on the way to another cattle camp to mobilize and collect dowries for his marriage to the same girl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yang Ater Yang Police in Lakes State is investigating a case of shooting of man who allegedly impregnated a girl and later promised to marry her. The incident occurred at Alau-agaap cattle camp in Rumbek East County on Wednesday. The victim, Mr. Thon Marual Kau was reportedly shot and<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/05\/man-shoots-a-suitor\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16548,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547\/revisions\/16548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}