Dad ends life as kids come home
Five years ago, Sergeant Henderik Heinz lost his wife in a car crash, leaving him to raise his two teenage children.
On Saturday, a week before Christmas, Heinz, 38, allegedly ended his life by shooting himself in the head – as his children walked up the driveway of their Richards Bay home after visiting their maternal grandparents.
On Tuesday, his distraught mother, Doreen, said her son had been battling to deal with the death of his wife, Antoinette, and being a single father to his children, aged 19 and 17. Coupled with the stress of his job, she said, he had reached the end of the road.
“After Antoinette died, Henderik battled to get along. But he managed to find his feet. He always said to me he was stressed at work. I encouraged him to get professional help. I never expected him to kill himself.”
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