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DAYTON — Dunbar High School basketball star Aaron Pogue was in critical condition Thursday with a bullet lodged near his spine and fluid in his lung, his mother said.

Wednesday night, the 18-year-old starting center was shot in his right torso as he and a friend sat in a car in the parking lot of a Key Bank on Salem Avenue about 9:30 p.m. The friend, Dorian Hoover, 25, of Dayton, in the driver's seat, was shot in his left foot, according to a Dayton police report.

Sharita Pogue said her son's right lung "has fluid in it. That's the big concern right now."

Hoover was not in a hospital Thursday, said Jeff Price, Hoover's basketball coach at Sinclair Community College.

Hoover told police he and Pogue were in the lot because the car had run out of gas and they were waiting on Hoover's father to arrive with gas, according to the police report.

Hoover said his left foot was hanging out of the window when he was shot, police said in the report, which also indicated that the car was hit by bullets five times.

He ran to Good Samaritan Hospital's parking lot. Pogue ran to a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant next door to the bank, where employees let him in and called 911.

"It doesn't appear that (Hoover and Pogue) were doing anything wrong," Sgt. Gary White said, noting there was no indication Thursday that Hoover and Pogue knew the shooter. There are no suspects, White said. Police found at least 15 shell casings and one live round near 2222 Stanhope Ave., about 240 feet from the car, according to the police report.