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Shooting outside Dartmouth businesses not random, say police

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.

Halifax Regional Police said they do not believe the shooting was a random act of violence and said the victim and suspect knew each other.

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.

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.

Police say the investigation is still in its preliminary stages.