Police are closing in on a suspect the believe was involved in a brazen shooting in March

Police have identified a suspect in the shooting incident that left two people with serious gunshot wounds in an Upper Coomera Pizza Hut carpark last month. Another woman’s car believed to be at the centre of the crime.

A WOMAN who allegedly asked a man to retrieve her stolen car is at the centre of a brazen daytime shooting, which left two people outside a Gold Coast Pizza Hut with serious injuries.

It is understood police are closing in on the man they believe was behind last month’s shooting.

Two men, aged 19 and 29, were taken to hospital several weeks ago with bullet wounds after being found in the carpark of Coomera Square shopping centre following the incident in a nearby suburb.

The 19-year-old was shot in the arm and the 29-year-old was shot in the abdomen at a scene at Willow Vale before they drove to the carpark of a Pizza Hut store at Upper Coomera.

Both have refused to assist police with their inquiries.

Police inspect the car where the two victims were found. Picture: Mike Batterham.

A manhunt later ensued for the shooter and a black Q5 Audi, which police believe was present at the scene of the attack.

Police are understood to have last week conducted a raid linked to the shootings and sources say officers have now identified a suspect, believed to be the alleged shooter.

The Bulletin previously reported text messages were exchanged between victims and the shooter before the attack.

It can now be revealed a girl allegedly claimed the pair who were later shot had stolen her car and she asked another man to get it back.

The shot men were found about 2.40pm outside Pizza Hut in the shopping complex on City Centre Drive at Upper Coomera on March 21.

The men were allegedly shot at Willow Vale before driving to Coomera. Picture: Mike Batterham.

Detective Inspector Chris Ahearn said police were notified about the incident by the victims about 10 minutes afterwards.

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“Police are currently investigating the circumstances of a shooting that occurred this afternoon at about 2.20pm at the corner of Ruffles Road and Hotham Creek Road, Willow Vale,” he said last month.

Police at the scene where two people where found injured believed to be shot. Picture: Mike Batterham.

Detective Insp Ahearn asked any ­person who was present at the Willow Vale location at that time to contact Crime Stoppers in 1300 333 000.

The men were taken to hospital but did not suffer life-threatening injuries.

A Coomera local and witness to the aftermath last month said he and his friends were around the corner from where the men were found.

“They got pulled out of a white Camry but we didn’t think much of it. We went a bit closer and got told by the cops we had to turn around and they put the tape up,” he said.

“ … It was a bit confronting, there was a fair bit of blood as you’d expect when people have been shot.”