South African Farmer Killed Defending Girls at Birthday Party

"He saved all of us," says the wife of a farmer who was shot dead while defending his family and guests, most of whom were teenage girls, at a farm in the Western Cape. Mark Fagan was shot when he approached balaclava-wearing suspects who had entered his family's house, where they were hosting a birthday party.

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Police line. Crime scene tape.

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