A man was wounded in a shooting when two people attempted to carjack him on St. Paul’s East Side on Thursday afternoon.

Officers were notified around 2 p.m. about the incident in the Cub Foods parking lot on Clarence Street and Maryland Avenue.

A man said he was pulling into the lot when two males approached and tried to get into his vehicle. As he drove away, one of the suspects fired into the driver’s door, shooting the driver in the leg, said Sgt. Mike Ernster, a St. Paul police spokesman.

The man drove himself to St. John’s Hospital in Maplewood, where he was treated for an injury that wasn’t life threatening.

With a description of a vehicle the suspects had been in at Cub, officers found it just after 3:30 p.m. near Payne Avenue and Bedford Street, Ernster said. Police arrested two men, ages 21 and 27.

The investigation is continuing.

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