mrselfdestrukt's Journal: News Flash: Shot man crawls 1km to get help

Johannesburg - With three bullets in his body, a seriously wounded 65-year-old man had to crawl to his neighbour for help, after being attacked and robbed on his smallholding at Beckedan in Tarlton on the West Rand.

Roger Seamons was attacked and overwhelmed by three armed men shortly after 05:30 in the bathroom of his smallholding home.

His wife, Faye, had driven off to work shortly before the gang attacked.

His wife said on Tuesday: "I've no idea how they gained access to the house.

"Usually, when I go to work, my husband goes to wash in the basin in our bathroom. He was doing this as usual this morning when he was surprised by at least three men."

She said the robbers - all armed - stood in the bedroom door adjoining the bathroom.

"My husband said the men were suddenly in the bathroom doorway and began shooting at him."

Wasn't a threat to him

He was hit three times - in the right elbow, left foot and right thigh.

His wife said: "He's an old man who wasn't a threat to them at all.

"If they'd knocked him over, he mightn't have been able to get up again. It wasn't necessary to hurt him so badly."

She had rushed at once to Krugersdorp Private Hospital when her neighbour phoned her with the news that her husband had been shot.

"It's dreadful. He must have crawled, injured and bleeding, for more than a kilometre to get help," she wept.

"He eventually reached the neighbour, who rushed him to hospital."

Inspector Karen Jacobs said police were searching for the robbers.

"It seems that robbery was the motive for the attack, because jewellery and a cellphone are missing from the house," she said.

"His (Seamons's) condition is still serious, but he seems to be out of danger."