A man with a concealed carry license was injured in a shootout after an argument Tuedsay morning in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

Police said they were called to the 1100 block of West Cullerton at about 5:50 a.m. for a report of a person shot.

Rick Villalobos was not expecting to find himself in a shootout with two men in his neighborhood when he left the house Tuesday morning. He was walking his husky near Cullerton and May when he saw two men near a car.

"I see a guy, young kid tapping on the window, which I thought was a phone. Five car lengths away I see he's hitting it and brandishes a gun," he said.

Unsure of what the suspects were trying to do, he said one of the men started cursing at him.

"Swears profanity that he's going to shoot me and then I see him shoot. The flame out of his gun and I duck down and I return fire," the 66-year-old said.

Villalobos was shot in the leg and taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.

"I think I was running to get cover and then I felt something, my leg moved," he recalled. "I know if I went down he would have rushed me and shot me, so I had to stay up."

Police said he has a valid FOID card and Concealed Carry License.

"I did what I had to do," Villalobos  said. "I didn't die on the streets. I didn't want to kill him either. I was praying that I didn't kill anybody."

It was not clear if either of the two men was injured in the shootout.

The two men got into a waiting Lexus and fled the scene. No one is currently in custody. An investigation by Area Three detectives is ongoing.

Villalobos said this isn't the first time he's been shot. He said in 1995, in the same neighborhood, he was walking with his wife when someone started shooting from a car.

"August 7th, 1995, my wife's birthday, we're walking down the street, a car pass by, gang-bangers started shooting, and I got hit." he said.

Those suspects got away, and so did Tuesday morning's shooters. Unsure if they got hurt, Villalobos had a message to the suspects.

"Stop that foolishness. You're going to end up killing somebody, or your parents are going to be burying you. You're too young," he said. 

He said after this morning's incident he feels traumatized and drained, and said it's a little hard to walk.