Police expect to obtain a warrant today for a man believed to have shot a 23-year-old Lansing man early Wednesday morning while he was at a friend’s house in East Lansing.

About 3:30 a.m. the man entered the East Lansing townhouse in the Pebble Creek subdivision, off Coolidge Road, and shot the 23-year-old one time in the chest, East Lansing police said. The 23-year-old was taken to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital, where he was listed Wednesday night in critical condition.

East Lansing police Sgt. Nancy Hamilton said police believe the shooter, who fled the scene, knew the man who was shot.

Hamilton declined to identify the man, his relationship to the shooting victim and how he entered the East Lansing home.

Police had not been able to talk to the 23-year-old Lansing man until late Wednesday.

The Lansing man was visiting a friend on the 1500 block of Wintercrest Street.

He was shot on the first floor of the townhouse and crawled upstairs to his friend, police said. The friend then called police.

Police said several shots were fired.

Next-door neighbor Mohamed Mahmoud said he was cooking dinner in his kitchen about an hour before the shooting. When he returned later that morning he found a bullet hole, about 1-inch in diameter, in the wall above his pots and pans.

“I’m lucky,” Mahmoud said. “If I had still been cooking I could be dead right now.”

Mahmoud said police interviewed him Wednesday morning and recovered the bullet lodged underneath the refrigerator.

Mahmoud said the shooting makes him feel his house isn’t safe for his wife and 1-year-old daughter.

“I’m scared,” he said. “We’ll be moving. You have to keep your family safe.”

But not all residents of the neighborhood are as worried. Mosey Djavid, who lives several houses away from shooting site, said the incident doesn’t bother him.

“Nothing like this has ever happened before,” said Djavid, who lives with his mother and 3-year-old son.

“Normally it’s a quiet and peaceful neighborhood,” he said.

Tara May can be reached at maytara@msu.edu.