A man was shot several times during a dispute with another man in a parking lot at Kapiolani Boulevard and Kalakaua Avenue yesterday evening, police said.

The suspect, a man in his 30s, turned himself in at the Pearl City police station at about 9:20 p.m., police said. He was arrested on suspicion of attempted second-degree murder.

The victim, who appeared to be in his 30s, was first in critical condition, but was improved to serious condition, said Bryan Cheplic, a spokesman for the city Department of Emergency Medical Services. He was taken to the Queen’s Medical Center.

Police put out an all-points bulletin for a 36-year-old man armed with a 9 mm handgun. They described him as 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighing 170 pounds. He has short dreadlocks and drives a white 2002 BMW, police said.

Detective Jack Snyder said the victim was shot once in the torso and possibly twice in the leg and that a weapon was not recovered. Police are investigating what the men were arguing about.

Vicky Simmonds, who is part-owner of Jawaiian Irie Jerk lunch wagon that was parked in the lot where the shooting occurred, said her husband was working and saw the shooting that took place about 6 p.m.

The dispute was about a woman and had started a day earlier, she said.

She said the shooter was known as "Panama" and the victim was Damien, an employee of a company called Johnny the Mover, which parks its vehicles in the same lot.

Panama had to get stitches after Damien punched him in a fight the day before, she said.

Just before the shooting yesterday, Panama was eating at the lunch truck when Damien drove into the parking lot at the end of his shift.

The men argued. Panama chased Damien behind a parked bus and shot him three times, Simmonds said.

She said her husband, Caswell, had tried to break up the quarrel.

"Damien, pretty much from what I heard, asked for it," she said. "Panama is normally a nice guy. He didn’t mean to kill him," she said. "Everybody saw it. The gunshot wasn’t to kill him."

A man who only gave his last name as Eli said he was smoking a cigarette at the corner of Hauoli Street and Kapiolani Boulevard when he heard three shots.

He walked toward the scene and saw a man lying in a pool of blood in the parking lot beside Century Center condominium building.

The man had a gunshot wound in his left leg and lower back, he said. Two men were helping him.

"He (the victim) was talking to the other guy and that guy got him a blanket," he said. "He was in pain; you can hear him."

A 10-year-old boy said he was fishing off the Makiki Ditch bridge when he heard someone say, "’You want to f— with me,’ then after that pow, pow, pow."