CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police are looking for the gunman they said walked up to a man at a northwest Charlotte bus stop Friday night and opened fire.
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Officers were called to the scene just before 10 p.m. on Hovis Road near Ponderosa Street.
Witnesses told police that the victim was at the bus stop when a man approached him and shot him several times.
The gunman ran away and no description of him has been released.
Police went door-to-door asking residents if they saw anything.
The victim was talking to detectives before he was taken to the hospital with what police were calling life-threatening injuries.
No further details have been released.
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