A suspected robber was left injured after fleeing from a business owner he had robbed last Saturday afternoon.
The victim told the police he was at his Second Street business when a man came in and showed interest in buying a Nissan Navara bakkie.
The victim showed the man the bakkie and he left.
After a short while, the same man returned accompanied by a friend. They both asked to look at the bakkie.
The victim showed them the bakkie and while they were looking at it, one of the men pulled out a gun, pointed it at the victim’s head and told him he was going to kill him if he didn’t give them money.
The victim informed the man he didn’t keep cash on the premises.
They ordered the victim to lie down and tied him up with cable ties.
The pair then searched him and found his firearm, a 9mm pistol with 15 rounds of ammunition, and took it along with three cellphones before fleeing.
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The victim broke the cable ties and ran to the front door and saw the men going into Third Street in a white Nissan Almera with the registration CY22JGGP.
The victim phoned for help and jumped into his vehicle and chased after the pair.
He followed them into Third Street and, at the traffic lights, the victim rammed his vehicle into the men’s car.
The occupants of the car jumped out and one of them opened fire on the victim as they ran in different directions.
The victim followed the two men towards Second Street with his vehicle and in First Street, the man with the firearm shot at the victim again.
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The victim was unperturbed and chased the man and hit him with his vehicle.
The man fell as he was seriously injured while his partner in crime fled over the railway line.
Upon arriving on the scene, the police arrested the injured suspect.
When they searched him, they found two 9mm pistols, one of which belonged to the victim, and a Taurus pistol with no serial number and 25 rounds of live ammunition.
On the scene where the men abandoned their Nissan Almera, police found another firearm, five cellphones inside the vehicle and another 9mm Glock with no serial number.
The injured man is from Soweto and he was taken for medical attention.
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