Winfred Bertrand McCain, 24, is recovering from gunshot wounds to his leg and back , said Detective Tom Lowe of the Salisbury Police Department.

Lowe would not disclose the location of the hospital, and said there isn’t much new information in the case other than the fact that McCain is alive.

“There’s really not a whole lot of information ... besides he was found, he was in a medical facility and, thank God, he’s not dead,”Lowe said.

Reports on Richmond, Va. television stations said last night that McCain is in a hospital in that city, but Lowe would not confirm that.

Lowe would not comment on McCain’s condition. Other reports have said the injuries are not life-threatening and McCain should be released from the hospital soon.

An hour before the shooting, Charlotte police got a report that four men had abducted McCain at gunpoint in the parking lot of an apartment complex at 5820 Reddman Road.

The men apparently brought McCain to the Happy Traveler Inn in at Salisbury, where they beat and shot him, police say.

A Happy Traveler desk clerk told police she heard a loud noise just before 1 a.m. Tuesday and saw the incident captured by the motel’s surveillance camera.

On the monitor, she saw three men pull another man from the rear seat of a car. They beat him, shot him and threw him into the trunk of the car, the clerk told police.

That car and another then left the parking lot via the rear exit and headed toward Interstate 85, the clerk told police.

Police said a motel patron also heard the noise and saw the incident from his room window.

Investigators with the Salisbury and Charlotte police departments are working together on the investigation.

Lowe said he doesn’t know the relationship, if any, McCain has with the men who abducted him. He said police could interview McCain on Monday, depending on his condition.

McCain is the son of Franklin McCain, one of a group of college students who staged now-famous “sit-ins” in Greensboro during the 1960s civil rights movement, Lowe said.

Police say they are having the grainy surveillance videotape enhanced. The suspects are described as four black men in their 20s driving a four-door silver or white Toyota Camry and a four-door burgundy Lexus.