LORAIN — A Lorain man was shot in the foot overnight in Central Lorain, and police have conducted gunshot-residue tests on that man and two other individuals.

Police received a call about 1 a.m. of shots fired and people running in the area of Reid Avenue and West 27th Street.

Police arrived to find an abandoned silver Chevrolet HHR left sideways in the roadway. Neighbors reported that two males had run north through backyards. Within minutes, police received a call from an off-duty police officer reporting that he had detained two males behind a Lexington Avenue home.

Police found the vehicle had the passenger-side window broken out and several gunshot holes in its side.

The pair, two Lorain men, ages 38 and 32, told police they were passengers in the vehicle, which was driven by someone named “J” or “JD.” They said J stopped to speak to individuals driving a black SUV, but four men exited that vehicle with guns and began firing at them. They said they exited the vehicle and fled on foot. They said they didn’t know where J went.

As the pair was being interviewed, another officer stopped a car at West 21st Street near Lorain Drive and discovered a shooting victim, Randy Glover, 19, of Lorain. Officers conducted a followup interview with Glover at Mercy hospital.

He told them he was a passenger in a black Oldsmobile Bravado when the vehicle was cut off by the HHR. He said two males exited that vehicle and he fled because he “knew they were going to start shooting.” He was shot in the foot by one of the men from the HHR, he said, as he attempted to flee.

Glover said he then hopped back from the vehicle and asked his friend to drive him to the hospital. As they fled, he said the driver hit a curb and lost a tire, so the pair abandoned the vehicle and fled. He said he then called his mother for a ride to the hospital.

Officers found four spent 9 mm casings and two spent projectiles in the roadway and two spent projectiles in the HHR.

The Oldsmobile Bravado was located on West 27th Street, and both vehicles were towed from the scene to be inventoried.

A review of on-board camera footage from a police cruiser at the scene revealed an audio conversation between the first two males discussing making up a name for the driver of the car they’d been in, according to the report.

“I’ll say ‘J,’ and you tell them ‘JD’ was driving,” the report quotes them as saying.

Gunshot residue tests were performed on all three men.

Police never located the alleged drivers of either vehicle.