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HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — Three people, including a young boy, were wounded in a shooting in North Carolina and went to the hospital in a bullet-riddled car.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that the shooting occurred on a road adjacent to Interstate 40/85. The victims were driven to a hospital in Hillsborough shortly before 8 a.m.

According to authorities, a man, a woman, and a 7-year-old boy showed up at UNC Hospital’s Hillsborough Campus in a vehicle riddled with bullets and with a smoking engine to seek treatment for gunshot wounds.

Two of the victims were taken to a hospital in Chapel Hill for treatment. A third victim remained at the Hillsborough hospital, according to the sheriff’s office, which added that none of the injuries are believed to be life-threatening. The identities of the victims weren’t immediately released.

Sheriff Charles Blackwood said the shooting was not a road rage incident and that it was also not a random shooting.

Blackwood said the suspect’s vehicle was following the victim before the shooting occurred.

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