Pretoria hardware store owner shot during robbery
“It is believed that the man tried to intervene when a woman was being robbed at his store.”
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.
It is believed that the man tried to intervene when a woman was being robbed at his store.
“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, and no arrests have yet been made.
A case of attempted murder and attempted armed robbery will be investigated by the Garsfontein police.
According to Vermu paramedics spokesperson Casper Visser, the man was airlifted to Milnerpark hospital in Johannesburg.
Police asked anyone with any information regarding the incident to please contact the police station at 012-472-0144.
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