Carbondale Police have confirmed three arrests were made in response to the shooting of SIU student Dexter Lee.

Darrion Jake of Cape Girardeau, Mo., Ternell Alritton of Carbondale and Robert E. Glass of Carbondale were taken to the Jackson County Jail Friday evening.

Jake is believed to be the shooter. He was charged with aggravated battery with a firearm, aggravated discharge of a firearm and mob action. Glass and Albritton were each charged with mob action, according to Carbondale Police.

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Lee, a senior from Chicago studying electronic system technology, said he was shot in the abdomen and sent to Memorial Hospital of Carbondale to have the bullet removed from his colon. He remains in recovery.

Lee said he was attempting to break up an altercation, but has learned not to always try to be the hero.

“When I said, ‘We’ve got everything under control,’ I guess he thought I was the guy he had got into it with,” Lee said. “And he ended up shooting the gun.”

The shooting took place around 12:30 a.m. Friday outside the La Fogata Taqueria restaurant at 519 S. Illinois Ave., prompting several fights in a large crowd. Around 1:30 a.m. police began to block off traffic in front of Sam’s Cafe. Police said they used pepper spray to break up the group of more than 200 people in the street.

An employee at La Fogata said he thought the weapon was a BB gun, and said Lee was able to walk to the ambulance and did not appear to be critically harmed.

Police on scene refused to comment about the nature of the incident.