LUMBERTON, N.C. (WTVD) Two people were seriously injured in a Saturday afternoon shooting in Lumberton, including a child.
Just before 4:15 p.m., Lumberton officers responded to a shooting at the intersection of Gavintown Road and Elizabethtown Road. On arrival, officers found two people suffering from gunshot wounds.
The two victims were identified as a 21-year-old Rock Hill, S.C. man and the other being a Lumberton child.
Police said the shooting was the result of a fight between the shooting victims and an occupant of a gold or champagne-colored car. The shooter s vehicle then sped away.
Both victims were taken to Southeastern Regional Medical Center.
Red Cross encourages people to donate blood, convalescent plasma
The American Red Cross is in urgent need of Type O blood.
According to Brian Williams, donor recruitment account representative of the Central Ohio American Red Cross Blood Services, urgent need means that the supply of Type O blood is not where they need it to be for meeting the orders of hospitals.
Williams said that January, even pre-pandemic and even more so during the pandemic, is a rough month for the agency for blood collection.
Now that the schools are not participating as much as they had prior to the pandemic the agency is hurting a bit more when it comes to low blood collection.