A 30-year-old man was shot in the left arm and left side, police said. His condition was stabilized at Stroger Hospital. A 24-year-old man was shot in the right foot, and he was stabilized at St. Bernard Hospital.



A man driving east toward the Dan Ryan on his way home heard the shots and then saw guns from a distance.



"It was the longest 30 seconds of shooting I've ever seen," said the man, 49, who did not want to be identified. "It's like the wild, wild West out here."



He pulled into the parking lot across from Falcon Fuel and waited for the scene to calm down. He saw a woman whose car had been damaged by the gunfire.



The man said people were exchanging gunfire on Lafayette south of the Dan Ryan. The men ran north and through the intersection. More gunshots shattered the glass of an enclosed CTA bus stop at the northwest corner of 79th and Lafayette.



At a parking lot near that bus stop, a woman buried her head in her hands as she sat in a car, which had a bullet hole through the passenger door on the driver's side.



Her cousin, teary-eyed and shaking, explained that she got a call to come to the parking lot after the woman's car was caught in the crossfire.



One of the injured men tried to open the car door and get inside to escape the gunfire, but the woman sped away, the cousin said.



A child's car seat was in the back, on the side opposite the bullet hole. Thankfully, the cousin said, it was empty.



Earlier this year, there was a triple shooting in the area that killed a 28-year-old man, according to police. In that shooting, the gunman went into a Subway restaurant in the first block of West 79th Street and opened fire.