Man critically wounded at Vegas convenience store
Associated Press Thursday 10th May, 2012
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Police are looking for a lone assailant who ran away after an early-morning shooting outside a neighborhood convenience store several blocks east of the Las Vegas Strip.
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