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A Volkswagen Golf riddled with bullets has been pictured outside a hospital where a man attended with gun-shot wounds.
The man self-presented at the Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham following what police called a "targeted attack" on a residential road around a mile away.
The shooting happened shortly before 7pm on April 30 with the car arriving at the hospital shortly afterwards, reports BirminghamLive.
The patient who had gunshot wounds to his abdomen and leg, is expected to recover.
University Hospitals Birmingham - which runs Heartlands - confirmed its A&E department was briefly "locked down".
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A man with bullet wounds walked into Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham (Martin O'Callaghan / Birmingham Live)A spokesperson said: "The department was locked down for a short while to ensure staff and patient safety. We will support West Midlands Police with any enquiries."
An image showed the blue Golf behind a cordon opposite the Princess of Wales Women's Unit.
Popular local author Omar Akbar said he had been asked to leave the accident and emergency ward and go to another hospital.
Omar tweeted: "Bullet holes in car windows. "We (new patients) got turned away. I had to go to another hospital where my wait was from 7.30pm [to] 2.20am. Look how far the nation has fallen.
"I’m sharing this as I think it’s monumentally messed up to have to leave a hospital due to a shooting and then go to another and wait for seven hours."
A West Midlands Police spokesperson said: "A man presented himself at hospital with gunshot wounds to his abdomen and leg yesterday just before 7pm. We understand he was in a car on Shaw Hill Road in Washwood Heath when shots were fired at the vehicle and the injuries were sustained.
"He remains in hospital. His condition is not believed to be life-threatening or life-changing.
"We are carrying out a forensic examination of the car and trawling CCTV from the area to establish what happened and identify who was responsible.
"We know that this will have been alarming for residents in Shaw Hill Road but we believe it was a targeted attack and we are fast-tracking enquiries as well as having an increased police presence in the area.
"We ask anyone with information or footage of what happened to contact us via Live Chat on our website or by calling 101 quoting log 3514 of 30/4.
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"Information can also be given to Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111."