Two men shot in Lancaster in second occupied car shooting in three days, police say
Two men were shot while sitting in a car in Lancaster Monday night, police said.
The car was parked on North Gregory Street east of downtown around 8 p.m. when the shooting happened, according to a statement from the Lancaster Police Department.
The victims were ages 60 and 61, said Kayla Vaughan, spokesperson for the police department. The men were transported for medical treatment. Their injuries do not appear to be life-threatening, Vaughan said.
The names of the victims have not been released.
Detectives recovered shell casings from fired bullets and other evidence near the shooting scene, Vaughan said.
No motive for the shootings has been released.
Second shooting into a car in three days
Lancaster police and investigators with the Lancaster County Violent Crime Task Force also are investigating another case of shooting into a car, which happened three days earlier in the same neighborhood.
Friday night there was a shooting at the intersection of St. Paul Street and Hughes Street, police said. That site is about three blocks from Gregory Street.
In the Friday night shooting, an occupied car was hit by several bullets around 8:30 p.m., Lancaster police said in a statement. No occupants in that car were hit, police said. Investigators recovered more than 30 shell casings in the road, officials said.
Vaughan said detectives are looking at both cases, but it is unknown if there is any connection between the shootings.
Lancaster, the Lancaster County, South Carolina county seat, is a city of about 9,000 people south of Charlotte and east of Rock Hill.
No arrests have been made in either case.
This story was originally published October 26, 2021 at 4:51 PM.
