A Geneva County restaurant owner is in stable condition in a Dothan hospital after an attempted robbery.

78-year-old James Burks was shot in the neck and chest at the Railroad Restaurant on Highway 123 in Hartford about 9 pm Wednesday night.

Burks was able to identify the shooter from a hospital bed just hours after the incident.

Police arrested 16 year-old Curtis Lamar Ingram in this case, he has been charged with attempted murder and first degree robbery, and bond has not been set.