Shane Su­perville

A 22-year-old man is in crit­i­cal but sta­ble con­di­tion af­ter he was shot on Sun­day night.

Po­lice said the man was trav­el­ling in a white Nis­san Ti­i­da with a 40-year-old man on the La­dy Young Road, Mor­vant, at around 11 pm when they no­ticed a gold Toy­ota NZE car dri­ve along­side them.

A man got out of the gold Toy­ota and shot at both men as they got out of the car and ran in­to Pitch Road.

The gun­man got back in the car and drove off.

One of the men felt a burn­ing in his low­er back and re­alised he was bleed­ing.

He was tak­en to hos­pi­tal where he re­ceived emer­gency surgery last night.

Of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tion Unit vis­it­ed the scene and found 19 spent 5.56 shells.