Businessman shot during robbery attempt

A Belize City businessman is hospitalized following a shooting at his club on Central American Boulevard early this morning. Police say around four thirty-five a.m. they were alerted by a taximan that three men had broken into the W.B. Pool and Bar located at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Trinity Street. Police responded and discovered the men were still inside. They say moments later shots rang out and Bassam Nasser the owner received a gunshot wound to his right shoulder. The assailants fled the scene. Nasser is reported to be in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in a stable condition. Police say they are investigating.