{"id":28110,"date":"2024-07-27T05:03:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T09:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=28110"},"modified":"2024-07-27T05:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T09:03:04","slug":"mass-killer-dies-as-victims-still-demand-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/07\/27\/mass-killer-dies-as-victims-still-demand-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass killer dies as victims still demand justice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Louis van Schoor, a convicted mass murderer in South Africa known as the \u201cApartheid Killer\u201d, has died.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 72-year-old had been in hospital with an infection in his leg. His daughter told the BBC he died on Thursday afternoon \u201cdue to complications from sepsis\u201d.<\/p>\n

Van Schoor\u2019s death came less than a week after a BBC investigation into his past, which exposed horrific new details about a series of killings he carried out in the late 1980s during the final years of white-minority rule.<\/p>\n

The sister of one of his victims has told the BBC she hopes the police will re-open the cases for investigation despite his death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At a time when the racist apartheid system imposed a strict hierarchy that privileged white South Africans, Van Schoor was operating as a private security guard in the coastal city of East London.<\/p>\n

Between 1986 and 1989, he shot and killed at least 39 people. All of his victims were black and the youngest was just 12 years.<\/p>\n

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