Man shot, wounded in Anchorage convenience store parking lot

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

Police say 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 say 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.

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