lucknow a 55yearold trader who dabbled in property business was shot inside his general merchant shop in his jankipuram residential premises on thursday night police said the deceased awdhesh kumar awasthi 55 lived with his family in gudiyan purwa area of jankipuram around 730pm when awasthi was alone in his shop two gunmen sprayed bullets on him and fledhearing gunshots his son rohit awasthi 23 rushed to the shop and found him sprawled on the floor in a pool of blood he carried his father on motorcycle to a nearby hospital and then rushed him to kgmu trauma centre where he was declared brought dead doctors found bullet injuries on his body at the crime scene police found four shells of 32 bore used by authorised license gun holders police however were unable to confirm whether shots were fired from a licensed gun or a countrymade weaponrohit told police awdhesh primarily handled property transactions and ran a general store for additional income in the fir rohit named three persons for murdering his father he said one of the accused with whom awedesh had a dispute over rs 50lakh property deal dispatched two gunmen to kill his father station house officer jankipuram mohammad ashraf said they are scanning the area for cctv cameras to identify the shooters