BATON ROUGE - A person was shot and robbed Thursday night after two people met up for the sale of items at a Coursey Boulevard apartment complex, East Baton Rouge deputies told WBRZ.

Officials said they responded to a call around 8 p.m. where a person was shot in the backseat of a vehicle with an unknown man at the City Heights on Coursey apartment complex. The victim was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

Deputies said the man allegedly met the victim online and met in a vehicle to make a sale of some items when he robbed and shot the victim and fled.

The incident is still under investigation.