On 20 April 2017, the two Afrikaner men, Doorewaard and Schutte, came across Moshoeu and a second boy who were carrying 5 stolen sunflower heads. The boys ran away, abandoning the sunflower heads. Moshoeu was arrested and asked to take a seat on the back of the pickup truck. En route to the Coligny police station and 3 km from town, as the two men alleged, they were slowing down to 60 km/h at a turn in the road, when Moshoeu disappeared from the load body of the vehicle, and was assumed to have jumped off. Turning back, Moshoeu was found lying on the road, critically injured. A passer by was asked to look over him, as the two men proceeded to the police station where an ambulance was summoned. Moshoeu died of his injuries on his way to hospital in Lichtenburg.