By NBC News and msnbc.com staff
Two people were killed and three injured Friday afternoon in a shooting at a North Carolina tire store, NBC17 of Durham reported.
The Durham County Sheriff's Office said a gunman described as a man with a tattoo on the left side of his face fired shots then fled the scene in a silver sedan, NBC17 reported.
A witness who knows the owner of the business told NBC17 that he saw the owner being transported in an ambulance with gunshot wounds. Deputies say the three people wounded in the shooting were taken to hospitals.
It was not immediately clear what prompted the shooting.
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