CHICAGO (WLS) — Five people were shot outside a senior living building on the city’s South Side on Monday afternoon, Chicago police said.

Police said officers responded to a call about a shooting in the Bronzeville neighborhood’s 700-block of East 43rd Street just before 3:30 p.m.

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Two people who did not want to appear on camera told ABC7 that they heard upwards of 12 gunshots ring out across the street from the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Center and Judge Slater Apartments, which is a senior residence.

One woman said she stopped in her tracks and ducked down for cover.

“This is so unfortunate with the other mass shootings this weekend, to see the stuff that happens in the middle of the night happened during the day,” said community activist Pastor Donovan Price. “Just a community that’s out living life on hot, you know, end of summer afternoon and this breaks out.”

Police said a woman of an unknown age, shot in the leg, was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious condition.

A 72-year-old woman, shot in the shoulder, was taken to the same hospital in good condition.

Three men, a 35-year-old shot in the arm, a 44-year-old shot in the foot, and a 39-year-old in the arm, were taken to the same hospital in good condition.

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Police quickly expanded their perimeter of the crime scene, blocking off the intersection of 43rd and Cottage Grove. Dozens of shell casings were on the ground as investigators canvassed the area.

Deandre Moore works at the nearby senior residence building. His concern went immediately to the people who live there.

“They have no they have no idea what they’re waking up to. They have no idea what they come home to or anything, because elderly, they go to the store and come back home. They have no idea that they’re going to run into bullets or anything like that,” Moore said.

It is not known if any residents of that senior living building were among the victims shot, and what led up to the shooting was not immediately clear.

No one is in custody, and Area One detectives are investigating.

Ald. Lamont Robinson released a statement saying, in part, “This senseless act of terrorism in our community is inexcusable, and I will continue working with CPD the Mayor’s Office of Community Safety to ensure the perpetrator is held responsible.”

Police did not immediately provide further information.

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