Woman hospitalized after shooting on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis

A shooting on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis Thursday evening left a woman wounded, police say.

According to the Minneapolis Police Department, the shooting happened just before 6 p.m. on the 600 block of Nicollet Mall.

Police said a woman sprayed a man with mace, and he then pulled out a gun and fired. The victim, a woman in her 20s who was running from the area, was taken to Hennepin Healthcare and is expected to survive.

The victim was not the woman who used the irritant on the man, police said.

Police detained several people, including the alleged shooter, a man in his 20s. He was booked into the Hennepin County Jail on suspicion of second-degree assault.