A Salt Lake man was treated at Holy Cross Hospital Tuesday after being shot during a fight that afternoon.

Andrew Hernandez, 31, suffered a small-caliber gunshot wound to the left shoulder blade, said police Lt. Tom Brown.The lieutenant said Hernandez and another man argued in the parking lot of an apartment complex at 625 S. Redwood Road about 1:30 p.m. "Words were exchanged and blows were exchanged and then he got shot in the back."

A friend took Hernandez to the hospital where the wounded man was treated and released. Police were still seeking the assailant.

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