Hardware store owner shot during robbery
A 54-year-old hardware store owner is in a critical condition after he was shot during an attempted robbery at a shopping centre in the east of Pretoria on Wednesday.
The man was airlifted to Milnerpark hospital in Johannesburg. Photo: supplied.
It is believed that the man tried to intervene when a woman was being robbed at his store Pretoria Rekord reports.
“At around 11:00, three men in their early 30s, followed a woman into a shop at a shopping centre at the corner of De Villebois and Walker streets, Moreleta Park,” said police spokesperson Warrant Officer Duane Lightfoot.
“One of the suspects presented a handgun and demanded the woman’s jewellery. The owner of the business saw this and took out his firearm.
“Shots were exchanged between the suspect and the owner. The owner, a man in his mid-forties, was hit by a bullet in his upper body.”
The three suspects fled the scene in a white Volkswagen Polo.
Nothing was taken.
No arrests have yet been made.
A case of attempted murder and armed robbery will be investigated by the Garsfontein police.
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