"If you want a safe job, go sell shoes"

Greensboro, NC -- A confusing shooting case in Greensboro Friday night landed a man in the hospital.

The people involved told police a guy selling shoes knocked on the door of a vacant house on Hackett Street around 8:00pm.


The salesman says four men pulled him inside the house and locked him in a closet.

Then, the four went outside and tried to steal the shoe salesman's car. The salesman kicked his way out of the closet and used a lamp to smash his own car window as the four tried driving away and that's when they backed into a tree.

Seconds later, one of the men in the car shot at the salesman, but hit one of his buddies instead.

That gunshot victim ran onto Highway 29, got hit by a car and flagged down another car for a ride to the hospital.

But the first driver to stop refused to help him.
The second driver took him to a grocery store where he called for help.

Police are still trying to figure out who will get charged.