Shooting outside Dartmouth businesses sends man to hospital

A man in his 20s has been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a shooting in the parking lot of a strip mall on Woodlawn Road in Dartmouth, N.S.

Police were called to the scene at 3:23 p.m. Monday after a man in his 20s was shot

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Halifax Regional Police have not named the business where the shooting took place. (CBC)

A man has been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a shooting in the parking lot of a strip mall at 114 Woodlawn Rd. in Dartmouth, N.S.

Police were called to the scene at 3:23 p.m. Monday, where officers found a man in his 20s who had been shot.

Witnesses told CBC News five shots were fired from a hill on the side of the road down into the parking lot. One witness reported seeing three people standing on the hill.

There were up to nine evidence markers in the parking lot, some appearing to mark where bullet shell fragments were found. (CBC)

A white Volkswagen sedan was part of the focus of the police investigation. It sat in the middle of the parking lot with both driver's-side doors opened.

There were up to nine evidence markers in the parking lot, some appearing to mark where bullet shell fragments were found.

With files from Blair Rhodes