Business owner fed up after another shooting at nearby food mart

A person is recovering in the hospital after being shot Friday night at Fast Mart #5 in west Charlotte, according to officials.

Officials say the incident happened just before 6:30 p.m. on Beatties Ford Road, near La Salle Street.

Business owners in the area are at their wit’s end.

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“About three or four shots,” said George Saldias, who works at the Boost Mobile across the street from the shooting.

Saldias said things were not so bad.

“But it’s getting bad lately,” he told Channel 9′s Jonathan Lowe. “In a week, two shootings right in the same spot.”

MEDIC took one person to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

“At the end of the day, we are fathers,” Saldias said. “We are mothers. We have family at home. We just want to go home.”

On Feb. 8, there was an officer-involved shooting at the Fast Mart #5.

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Timothy Moore, 33, was involved in drug activity, police said.

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