Man shot, wounded in Anchorage convenience store parking lot

Published 8:00 am Tuesday, August 9, 2016

ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police are investigating an early morning shooting Monday that left a man wounded.

Police said a 39-year-old man shortly after midnight was shot in the parking lot of a convenience store on Mountain View Drive near Mountain View Lions Park.

The man was speaking to the driver of a white panel van without rear windows.

Police said the driver pulled out a gun and shot the pedestrian once in the lower torso.

The shooter drove off and is at large.

The wounded pedestrian was taken to a hospital for treatment and is expected to survive.