Josh Sullivan, 45, was taken at gunpoint last Thursday while he was delivering a sermon at the Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell outside the coastal city of Gqeberha.
The suspects tried to flee in a vehicle as they approached, opening fire on officers, said the police statement.
Sullivan arrived in South Africa with his family from Tennessee in November 2018, according to his personal website.
There were more than 17,000 kidnappings in South Africa in the 2023/2024 financial year, an 11 percent increase over the previous year, according to police statistics.
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