SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A 22-year-old man was shot in the back while running from four people in San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf area early Friday morning.

Around 12:30 a.m., the victim was leaving a restaurant in near the intersection of Leavenworth and Jefferson streets when the group of four came up and asked him if he was in a gang.

One of them men hit the victim with a beer bottle. As the victim was running away, he was shot. The bullet punctured the victim’s colon, according to police.

The man was taken to the hospital with injuries that aren’t considered to be life threatening.

The group approached the man are described as two men and two women, about 17 to 18 years old. Police said that at least one of them also had a knife.