A man was shot and critically wounded after a Strip District bar fight yesterday, and police were still trying to determine whether a man they have in custody was involved.

Just before 4 a.m. yesterday two men fought inside Gene's Last Chance bar in the 2500 block of Penn Avenue. The two fell partially through a window during the fight, which was broken up.

As one of the combatants was getting into a car to leave, the other shot at him, hitting him in the abdomen, arm and wrist. The shooter ran away.

The gunshot victim, a 38-year-old police did not identify, underwent surgery at Allegheny General Hospital.

Minutes after the shooting, detectives saw a speeding car hit a traffic island at 11th and Grant streets, Downtown. The detectives pursued the car, which was stopped by Homestead, Munhall and city police on the Homestead side of the Homestead Grays Bridge.

The driver, who had a bloody face, is in UPMC Presbyterian.

He was also not identified and has not been charged, but he will remain under guard, police said.

Cindy Springel, manager of the bar, said she was shocked to hear of the shooting.

"It's a shame because nothing like that has ever happened here," Springel said. "That isn't the type of place we are."

The bar is near the old Strip District police station, which was closed last year during the restructuring of the city's patrol zones.

Springel said she had questions for her bartender who was on duty about why people were still inside the tavern long after the 2 a.m. last call when the fight broke out.

"As far as I know, he wasn't serving after that," Springel said.

The shooting is the second this month in the Strip District. On June 6, a Homewood man, Edward Jackson Jr., 25, was shot and killed in a parking lot at 15th and Smallman streets. The case is under investigation by city homicide.

Cmdr. William Bochter, of the Hill District station, said the two shootings were unrelated. He said he did not see any trend toward more violence in the Strip District.

"I don't sense that there's a growing problem," Bochter said.