posted 08-17-2003 09:25 AM            

POSTED: 7:31 a.m. EDT August 15, 2003
UPDATED: 10:15 a.m. EDT August 15, 2003

There have been three fatal shootings outside convenience stores in Kanawha County, W.Va, within four days.

At about 10:20 p.m. Thursday a woman was shot while pumping gas at a SuperAmerica store in Campbells Creek, W.Va.

The second fatal shooting happened a little more than an hour later and 10 miles away outside a Go-Mart in Cedar Grove, W.Va., on U.S. Route 60.

Kanawha County sheriff's spokesman Lt. J.S. Bailes said the shootings appear to be random.

Sunday night, 34-year-old George Carrier of South Charleston, W.Va., was shot in the head and killed while using a pay telephone outside a Charleston Go-Mart.

Police across the area have been alerted to increase patrols around stores with gas pumps. They are looking for a black pickup truck with gold trim seen leaving the Cedar Grove store and a dark-green or blue Chevrolet Corsica from the Campbells Creek shooting.