Man shot, seriously injured in Lincoln Park, Chicago police say

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man was shot and seriously injured Wednesday afternoon in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, Chicago fire officials said.

The man was shot and taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in serious-to-critical condition, CFD said.

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Chopper 7 was over the scene about 4:30 p.m., and there was a large police and fire presence near Clark Street and Fullerton Avenue.

Police were still on the scene some two hours after the shooting, on a popular stretch of restaurants, shops and salons in Lincoln Park.

Police said the 34-year-old man approached multiple people on the sidewalk before he was shot. Multiple witnesses told ABC7 the man who was shot had been roaming the block for much of the day, harassing and threatening people, hitting cars and acting erratically.

Around 4 p.m. witnesses said that man encountered another man who was armed.

"Starts screaming, yelling, pushing the guy, and he did it again, and then the guy came, took his gun out and shot him," said Aileen Nieves, a witness who works on the block. "Picked on the wrong person. He said, 'find out today,' and he found out."

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"Disconcerting to have this happen in the neighborhood, and you always think the North Side is so safe... but no, it's Chicago, and it can happen anywhere," Lincoln Park resident John Cutler.

The fire department said the man who was shot was hit twice. Witnesses told ABC7 he was shot in the chest, and the other man who was armed walked away calmly from the scene. It did not appear that he was arrested.

Witnesses also say that man who was shot at one point had been either ushered away or detained by police.

After those initial reports he'd been threatening people the man returned, and then the shooting happened.

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