The first person to be shot in Chicago during the Memorial Day weekend was an 18-year-old man who was standing on a porch in the University Village neighborhood when a dark sedan passed and someone fired shots, according to police.



The man was hit in both legs around 9:25 p.m. in the 1200 block of West Grenshaw Street, police said. His condition was stabilized at Stroger Hospital. Another man was injured but was not hit by any of the bullets, police said.



Tim Miller, 24, who helped the two men, said he and three friends were hanging out on the steps when they saw a male running toward them in the alley directly across from them and two other males running south on South Racine Avenue.



"They were saying, 'Help, I got shot!' And we didn't really believe them at first," Miller said. "Then we saw blood."



Miller and his friends had the two sit on their stoop while one of his friends called 911 and the others went inside to get towels and ice packs. Miller said one was shot in the left thigh and the other had serious facial injuries and was "going in and out of consciousness."



About a dozen people stood at the stoop of Miller's apartment while the two were transported. Some were crying; others were on the phone.



"This has been too much," said one woman as another woman embraced her.



The group quickly dispersed as each ambulance left. Miller and his friends watched as police officers went into an alley nearby.



"We didn't expect it, obviously, because you know how people will just say random things sometimes? So we were like, 'Oh, what is he doing?'" said Johanna Dibuz, 23 who lives in the building. "But then it was real and we were obviously shocked."