{"id":252467,"date":"2026-07-26T17:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252467\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:13:10","slug":"suspect-gives-himself-up-following-deadly-stabbing-of-bethlehem-teen-sabc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252467\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect gives himself up following deadly stabbing of Bethlehem teen &#8211; SABC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspect has handed himself over to the police following the fatal stabbing of a 16 -year-old boy in Bohlokong near Bethlehem in the Free State.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Mmako Mophiring says the victim was admitted to a local hospital with serious injuries. He later succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations revealed that the teen was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver while taking a walk.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect handed himself over to the police and was detained.<\/p>\n<p>A case of murder is under investigation and the suspect is expected to appear before the Bethlehem Magistrate\u2019s Court on Tuesday facing a charge of murder.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/sapsFS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#sapsFS<\/a> [ALLEGED MURDER SUSPECT HANDS HIMSELF OVER TO POLICE] Bohlokong <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/SAPS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#SAPS<\/a> is investigating a case of murder following the fatal stabbing of a 16yr-old boy in Riverside section, Bohlokong near Bethlehem. The suspect handed himself over to the police.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is expected\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3ekbTjGv7q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3ekbTjGv7q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SA Police Service \ud83c\uddff\ud83c\udde6 (@SAPoliceService) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SAPoliceService\/status\/2081371616924029420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect has handed himself over to the police following the fatal stabbing of a 16 -year-old boy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-252467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}