Schoeman Riana

The ambush occurred in the late afternoon while thirty-five-year-old Riana, who worked as a systems manager for the Nkunzi Milky Way dairy, was at home with her two young sons, aged six and four. Armed intruders entered the residence and confronted her, shooting her directly in the chest. After she collapsed behind a door, the attackers stepped over her body to terrorize her children, demanding to know where the household money and bank cards were kept. The perpetrators then ransacked her clothing pockets, took a laptop and what cash she had on hand, and fled the scene. When her husband, forty-four-year-old Deon Schoeman, returned home from work later that evening, his young sons ran out over their mother's body to meet him, traumatized and recounting the exact logistics of the killing