CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Police are investigating a shooting at a north Charlotte motel. Officers said they went searching for the victim early Thursday, but they believe he’s the man who showed up at Presbyterian Hospital with a gunshot wound and later died.

Authorities originally headed to the InTown Suites on North Tryon Street just before 5:30 a.m. in response to a call about an attempted robbery by three men where shots were fired. When they arrived, they couldn’t find anyone injured.

Then about 5:40 a.m., officials in the Presbyterian Hospital Emergency Room called police and reported a man who had been shot had just died.

Witnesses said they heard shots fired into a motel room, then saw the man inside come out and fire back at three men, hitting one of them. Police said after investigating, they believe the three men tried to rob a woman in the parking lot when her boyfriend came out of his room and fired shots.

Investigators said when they discovered a man had died after being dropped off at the hospital, they connected the information and they believe he’s the man who was shot. That man was identified as 22-year-old Anthony Davis.

Officers have questioned several people who were involved. They said they’ve turned their evidence over to the district attorney’s office to determine if charges will be filed. They said the case may be deemed a justifiable homicide.

Those staying at the InTown Suites said they are still shaken up by the incident.

“It just tears my nerves up,” witness Teresa Hopkins said.

Hopkins and her husband are living in the motel room below where the first shots were aimed.

“(I heard) different shots from different guns. Pow, pow, pow. I said, ‘Neil, roll, roll, roll – get out of the bed,’” she said.

Kelly Garcia said she moved to Charlotte to get away from the crime in New York. She didn’t expect such violence at an extended-stay motel.

“Shocked, very, very shocked. I didn’t even know that it had happened,” she said. “They didn’t even notify us.”

She says she’s ready to move on.

“We have to find a place. This is ridiculous,” she said.

Now a place designed to give families a home during unsettled times is causing even more anxiety for them.

Also, the man who fired the deadly shot said he’s now being kicked out of the motel, so he has nowhere to stay. He said he feels he’s being punished for an action that was justified.