One person is dead and two others injured after an early morning shooting in east Columbia.

Officers were sent to the Break Time convenience store at 2709 E. Broadway at 3 a.m. Sunday for a panic alarm after a woman walked into the store with a gunshot wound, the Columbia Police Department said in a news release.

Officers also found on nearby Trimble Road a man who had been shot, then found another wounded man after searching the area. All three shooting victims were taken to a hospital by ambulance, and the man found on Trimble Road was later pronounced dead, police said.

Police said they did not know Sunday morning how badly the other victims were injured.

Investigators believe the three victims were in a vehicle traveling near Trimble and Brickton roads when another vehicle drove up and started firing at them. Officers found several shell casings and were searching Sunday to determine if any buildings had been hit by bullets, the department said. Police had the area blocked off for investigation after sunrise Sunday.

Police encouraged people to avoid the area.