LORAIN — Police are looking for a man they say shot his friend in the foot after a verbal argument Friday afternoon.

Randall Lee Taylor Jr., 23, fled from a home in the 1200 block of Massachusetts Avenue after shooting his friend, 30-year-old Desmond Johnson about 1 p.m., according to Lorain police Lt. Roger Watkins. It wasn’t clear what the two were arguing about.

Taylor fled in a blue Chevrolet Lumina that officers located in the south side of Lorain. Three schools in the area, Whittier Middle, Helen Steiner Rice Elementary and Palm Elementary, were on lockdown for about an hour while officers looked for Taylor, but he was not found. The case is being forwarded to the prosecutor’s office for a possible warrant, Watkins said.

The bullet did not penetrate Johnson’s skin, and reports at the scene were that Taylor fired a shot in the air and one into the ground,  which grazed Johnson.

Taylor already has warrants out for his arrest for not appearing at two sentencing hearings related to convictions last month for felonious assault and another for having a weapon under disability and unlawful possession of a dangerous ordinance, according to court records.