An argument between two men in Mounds View Thursday escalated to a shooting and law enforcement took the suspect into custody Friday.

Mounds View police asked Thursday night for anyone who saw Alex Robert Quevedo-Holmes, 20, to call 911. He was arrested without incident in South St. Paul, said Police Chief Ben Zender.

The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office charged Quevedo-Holmes, of Apple Valley, with second-degree assault on Friday. According to the criminal complaint:

A woman who has a child with the 22-year-old victim told police that she met Quevedo-Holmes at a bar a week earlier. Quevedo-Holmes spent the night at her residence, and her former boyfriend texted her that he was going to beat up Quevedo-Holmes and then arrived.

The two men argued outside, the woman got between them to break it up and told her ex to leave. He approached Quevedo-Holmes, who shot him.

The woman told police she didn’t know Quevedo-Holmes had a gun. Quevedo-Holmes got into her vehicle and told her to drive, but she refused and he ran away.

Officers responded to the shooting in the 2100 block of Buckingham Lane about noon Thursday. The victim had a gunshot wound to his upper thigh and officers applied two tourniquets to stop the bleeding. He said he thought about driving himself to the hospital, but started to black out.

He was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center with severe blood loss, was operated on for several hours and was in the intensive care unit as of Friday.

The shooting led to a search for the suspect by several law enforcement agencies, a SWAT response and “a shelter in place” issued in the area where the shooting took place.

Police learned that Quevedo-Holmes’ father lives near the shooting scene and surveillance video showed he put something in a grill by his father’s home. Officers found a handgun in the grill.