Lynn shooting victim critical

LYNN – A Lynn man who was shot on a crowded street remained in critical condition Thursday at a Boston hospital.Wendell A. Morris, 19, was airlifted to Beth Israel Medical Center where he was treated for three bullet wounds to his back and buttocks, police said.No arrests were made Thursday.Morris was shot at the corner of Essex Street and Brownville Avenue shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday, police said. Hundreds of shocked people stood by as emergency personnel placed him on a stretcher.In the chaotic scene, officers asked Morris who shot him, police said.”He said he has no idea who shot him,” Lynn police spokesman Lt. Ted Blake said.Blake explained police are still fitting together the facts of the crime. There was a bicycle lying next to Morris when police arrived, but Morris told officers he was walking on the sidewalk when he was struck, the lieutenant said.Initial reports indicated the shooter fled the area in a white Cadillac Escalade.Blake said the shooting does not, at this time, appear to be gang-related.The shooting preceded a flurry of violent activity in Lynn on Wednesday night. Someone fired several gunshots at 8 Minot St., lodging one of the bullets into a windowpane, around 8 p.m. At about 9 p.m., two groups of people were reported having a loud argument on Sheridan Street about who might have shot Morris earlier in the evening.Blake said he didn’t know how those incidents were connected to the Essex Street shooting, if at all.Morris was arrested three times in 2007, twice for domestic violence charges against his pregnant girlfriend and once for assault after he allegedly pointed an object at his mother’s boyfriend. The victim said it was a handgun, but Morris said the object was a cell phone.