Storeowner shoots suspected robber hours after mall hold-up

An empty display case after the robbery at Issacs Computer Electronics on the third floor of the Regent Multiplex mall on Regent and Wellington streets yesterday.

Hours after being robbed, a storeowner shot a man identified to him as one of the perpetrators last evening near the Stabroek Market.

Dwayne Charles, 25, of Charlestown sustained a gunshot wound to his right abdomen and was in a stable condition at the Georgetown Hospital up to press time.

Charles was shot after he and another man were identified to Isaacs Computer Electronics store owner Anthony Sarjoo as the