MONROE, N.C. -- Four Monroe youths were arrested Wednesday following an early-morning shooting that wounded a 15-year-old boy, Monroe police said.

Authorities are seeking more suspects in a second shooting that occurred as officers were responding to the first, police said.

Investigators have not released a possible motive in the shootings but think they may be gang related, said Sgt. Mike Fain of the Monroe Police Department.

The first shooting occurred around 2 a.m. at the intersection of Maurice and Hudson streets near downtown, police said. Officers found a 15-year-old boy in the street with a life-threatening gunshot wound. Police said he was in stable condition at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. His name was not released.

A second shooting into an occupied vehicle occurred a block down Maurice Street. No one is believed to have been injured. The car's occupants fled. Police think that shooting was in retaliation for the first, Fain said.

Arrested in the first shooting were Carl Thomas Jr., 18; Darius O'Bryant Thomas, 16; Antonio Devon Thomas, 21, of Marshville; and a 15-year-old whose name police did not release. They are charged with attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious bodily injury. Police searched for a fifth suspect, whose name and description were not released.

Police searched for two suspects in the second shooting. Their names and descriptions were not released.

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