Pta hairdresser shoots robber
27/11/2004 12:28  - (SA)  

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Pretoria - A pistol-packing hairdresser has allegedly killed a robber and wounded two others in a shootout outside a butchery in the Pretoria central business district on Friday afternoon, said police.

Seeing people being pushed around behind the closed doors of Capital Meat, next door to his shop, at 17:30, the hairdresser went to investigate, police spokesperson Inspector Percy Morokane said on Saturday.

He caught one of the robbers walking out of the butchery pretending the be a customer, and forced him to the ground at gunpoint.

The robber managed to flee with a bag of stolen cash when his three accomplices emerged, guns blazing, from a side door, leaving the slightly injured butcher inside.

In the ensuing shootout, the hairdresser apparently fatally wounded one of the robbers below his collarbone. Cornered, another robber was thought to have taken his own life, said Morokane.

The other two were believed wounded: there was a trail of blood from the scene.

The hairdresser would not face any charges "for now", but an inquest docket would be opened into the deaths of the robbers, Morokane said. A case of armed robbery would also be investigated.

- SAPA

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