THE police in ‘E’ Division are hunting for two suspects who robbed two youths on Monday night at Canvas City, Wismar.

It happened around 09:45hrs while the victims identified as Akeem and Tevin (only name given) were walking when they were accosted by the two suspects, who are known to them and who relieved them at knife-point of their cell-phones and a gold chain and escaped.

At the time, the young men were on their way to visit a relative, while the other one was on his way home.

Sleuths in that Divison said they have made checks on the whereabouts of the suspects, and it is only a matter of time before they are arrested.

Meanwhile, a Lower Kara Kara Squatting Area resident was shot and injured on Monday night when he ventured out of his house to enquire about the incessant barking of his neighbours’ dogs.

Police reported that the shooting occurred about 03:55hrs on January 12, 2015, in which Godfrey Marks, 43, of Lower Kara Kara Squatting Area, Linden, was confronted by four men as he went to check on the barking of dogs in the neighbourhood.

During the confrontation, he was shot to his left shoulder by one of men and they entered his home and demanded valuables.

Marks’s wife and nine-year-old son were assaulted by the perpetrators who escaped empty-handed.

Marks was treated at the Mackenzie Hospital, Linden.