A woman was killed and another was wounded after a gunman opened fire Tuesday evening outside a Birmingham convenience store in what police say was a targeted shooting.

A South Precinct officer working another call in the vicinity of the 4500 block of Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard North heard multiple shots fired in the area just before 8 p.m., said Officer Truman Fitzgerald.

The officer began investigating the area when he entered the 10th Avenue Convenience & Smoke Shop and found a woman lying unresponsive inside the store and suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, said Fitzgerald.

Meanwhile, another victim, also a woman, was struck by gunfire.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service personnel arrived on the scene and pronounced the woman found inside the store deceased.

The other woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Fitzgerald said.

According to the preliminary investigation, a group of people was standing outside the store when an unknown suspect approached and fired multiple shots toward the group’s direction, the officer said.

The suspect is not in custody.

Fitzgerald said the circumstances of the shooting indicate “this was a targeted attack.

“We’re working to learn why someone would target our victim,” the officer said, adding that multiple people in a crowd that formed following the shooting indicated the incident could be related to another shooting.

Police are trying to speak to the injured woman to assist the investigation.

“She’s distraught, and also we want to protect her as well because if this was a targeted event, who knows the seriousness of them coming back and targeting her,” said Fitzgerald.