Bandits early yesterday morning shot a man in the neck; beat, terrorised and robbed eight others at a small grocery and barbershop on Mandela Avenue before escaping in a waiting car, having also grabbed two five-pound tins of Fern Leaf milk powder.

Twenty-seven-year-old Joseph Lewis called ‘Big Joe’ of South Ruimveldt Gardens is now a patient at a private hospital nursing gunshot injuries to his neck and chin. He was shot around 1.30 am yesterday at the shop where he and the other young men were ‘liming’. They were all robbed of cash, cell phones and jewellery.

Lewis’s relatives said yesterday afternoon that the young man underwent surgery and the bullet, which entered through his neck and lodged in his chin, was removed. He is in a stable condition.