Oh No! Popular Pastor Crushed to Death by Hit-and-Run Driver While Jogging (Photo)

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Oh No! Popular Pastor Crushed to Death by Hit-and-Run Driver While Jogging (Photo)

Pastor Leonard Baloyi, a popular South Arican pastor, has been killed.

The 37-year-old man was killed after he was crushed while jogging in the morning.

According to Daily Sun SA, the pastor, has been described a jovial man, a good husband and dad who loved his wife and kids.

On 1 December, he took his wife and kids to Westgate Mall for some family fun, and the next day went jogging as usual but it now appears he had been saying goodbye.

The pastor from Meadowlands zone 2, Soweto, South Africa, was allegedly killed by a taxi on the road in broad daylight.

Baloyi was jogging along Elias Motsoaledi Road in Dobsonville, on the way to Main Reef when the incident happened.

His wife, Tshiwela Baloyi (34) said she watched as her husband of 11 years prepared to go for his usual morning run.

She said she didn’t know she was seeing him for the last time.

Tshiwela started to panic when time went by and her husband didn’t come back home.

“I waited at the gate hoping he would come, but he didn’t,” she said.

Tshiwela said they looked everywhere before going to the cops to report him missing.

“Police helped in the search, but Baloyi was nowhere to be found.”

It was only late on that Saturday that they found his body at Diepkloof mortuary.

Captain Kay Makhubela confirmed that a missing person’s file was opened, but was later changed to culpable homicide case.

Baloyi’s memorial service will take place tomorrow, followed by his funeral on Friday.