SAN FRANCISCO — A man was wounded when gunfire broke out in the area of the United National Plaza early Saturday evening, police reported.

The shots were fired just after 6 p.m., when several groups of men got into a verbal dispute unrelated to the PRIDE event occurring in the area, police Officer Carlos Manfredi said in a news release.

“The incident escalated when one of the subjects pulled out a gun and fired several shots,” Manfredi said. “One struck a PRIDE spectator in the arm.”

A video taken by a spectator showed officers flooding into the area. They detained several people on Market Street, Manfredi said. The victim, a 64-year-old man, was in stable condition at San Francisco General Hospital.

Police crime, gang and night investigations units were still at the scene three hours later.

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