A group marching from Milwaukee to DC was shot at in Pennsylvania and one person was injured, protest leader Tory Lowe says

A person marching with a group of protesters from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C., was shot in Schellsburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday night, according to a protest leader Tory Lowe.

The man who was shot is a Milwaukee resident and goes by the name Cino, Lowe said. He was sprayed with bird shot and was struck in his face and side.

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Bird shot is another name for the small pellets, often made of lead, contained in a shotgun shell. When fired, the bird shot forms a pattern of many small projectiles, rather than one bullet fired from a handgun or rifle.

Cino was released Tuesday afternoon from a hospital in Johnstown, a city about 60 miles west of Pittsburgh.

Lowe said the incident was unprovoked.

The group was marching late Monday night along U.S. 30, also known as Lincoln Highway, through Bedford County. According to Lowe, the group paused at the bottom of a curved hill, near a salvage yard, and was trying to decide whether to climb it after a long day in hilly terrain or whether to conclude marching for the night and head to a hotel.

Apparently a neighbor, watching from his window, contacted his adult son about the group resting outside his home, Lowe said. As some members of the group climbed the hill to see how steep it was, the son emerged from a home at the top of the hill and began shooting.

The man was about half a block away when he started firing his gun indiscriminately and yelling to "get the (expletive) out of here," Lowe said. The man also called the group the n-word, according to Lowe. 

"They came out blazing," Lowe said.

Pennsylvania State Police are investigating the shooting, spokesman Brent Miller said in a news conference Tuesday morning. 

A business owner called police at 11:18 p.m. saying there was a group of people in his parking lot, according to state police. 

"He had asked them to leave and they wouldn't leave," state police Capt. Jamie Clark said.

But Lowe said there was no interaction between the marchers and the man and his son before the incident. 

"We never even had a conversation with these people," Lowe said.

The two Pennsylvania men were being questioned by state police investigators Tuesday morning. No one was in custody as of Tuesday afternoon and no charges had been filed.

Schellsburg, in rural Bedford County, is over 150 miles from the marchers' final destination.

The group began marching from Caledonia on Aug. 4 in hopes of arriving in the nation's capitol by Friday — the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech. 

Lowe and Frank "Nitty" Sensabaugh were arrested in Indiana two weeks ago after police said the group was blocking traffic.

"The things we have been through just walking the route to Washington, D.C., it's crazy," Lowe said in the video.