Substantial reward offered for info on Steynsburg farm murder

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Police are still searching for the suspect who shot and killed a farmer at Steynsburg in the Eastern Cape on Sunday evening and wounded his wife.

The 45-year-old Brent Gibbons was shot several times in the kitchen of his farmhouse and his wife Willemien was also shot before the shooter fled the scene.
She was admitted to a Port Elizabeth hospital in a stable condition

The couple's three young daughters aged three, five and eight, were not injured in the attack.

The Steynsburg community has meanwhile raised a R100-000 reward for information leading to an arrest and successful conviction.

Anyone with information can contact Colonel Bosch at the Aliwal-North police station on 082 779 7107.