4 Shot in 'Running Gun Battle' on North Carolina Highway, Police Say

Associated Press
Updated
It appears shots were fired between the occupants of two vehicles around 2:15 a.m.

One vehicle carrying three wounded men ended up stopped in the eastbound lane, and the other left the scene. The four men who got shot were treated at hospitals for wounds that did not appear to be life-threatening. All are in their mid-to-late 20s.

Sheriff Alan Norman called it an “incredibly stupid incident with so much potential danger to innocent people.” The participants were not cooperating with investigators.

Cleveland County is on the North Carolina-South Carolina line.