Police are investigating a shooting at a restaurant carpark on the Gold Coast on Sunday.

According to police, a vehicle was stopped in a carpark on Gooding Drive in the Gold Coast suburb of Merrimac when the alleged shooter arrived about 3.40pm.

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The man got out of the vehicle and approached the stopped car, “firing several shots into the car” before driving away.

A 24-year-old passenger of the first vehicle was shot in the leg and later presented himself to the Robina Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

A 19-year-old woman was assisting police with their inquiries.

Investigations continue.