Francois Harvey Viljoen

Francois Viljoen (1982 - 2007)

Brief overview:

Francois (25), a musician, heard his mother scream inside her bedroom during the early morning and ran to her aid, but was shot by the 4 armed attackers who had broken into their home. Nothing was found stolen. Francois died upon his arrival at hospital. Lynnwood, Pretoria. Sat 27 Aug 2007.

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
• Funeral/Memorial
• The Street/Suburb
• The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)
  • Forty minutes earlier, Frans Jacobs (61), was also shot in the chest at a house about a kilometre away. The bullet entered the right side of his chest, went through his lung and liver and left his body through his back.
  • The killing of Viljoen came a week after two shooting incidents in Lynnwood in which a retired city doctor of education Dr Cilliers Snyman (65), died and a senior economist was seriously injured in separate house robberies.

Attack Details:

• Date and time of attack
• Weapons
• Items Stolen
• Investigative officer/SAPS Case No:
• Torture, Gratuitous violence
• Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.

Perpetrator details:

• Number and Descriptions
• Arrests
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction

Additional Biographical Information:

Links to Media articles:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20220919190851/https://www.iol.co.za/ne...
• https://web.archive.org/web/20220919192428/https://www.iol.co.za/ne...
• https://web.archive.org/web/20220919192841/https://www.iol.co.za/ne...
• https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000193953285859