Three people were detained for questioning by Lewiston police after a shot was fired outside a McDonald’s restaurant Thursday afternoon.

A handgun was fired in the drive-through area of the restaurant on Lisbon Street around 3:30 p.m., during an argument involving three men, said Lewiston police Lt. Mike McGonagle. A bullet hit a tire on the minivan of a woman who was trying to place an order, with a young child in the van. No one was injured.

“We’re still trying to get to the bottom of this,” McGonagle said Thursday evening. “We really don’t know what happened.”

No one had been arrested, but the man who fired the gun remained at large, McGonagle said.

The handgun was recovered, he said.

WCSH-TV reported that one shot was fired after three men, who apparently had just walked out of the restaurant after ordering food, started to argue.

A scuffle ensued when one man pulled a gun. The gun fired, sending one bullet into the tire of the minivan.

The man who fired it, described as Hispanic with short brown hair, ran off. The two other men got into a silver Saab driven by a woman and left the restaurant.

A short while later, staffers from the Sun Journal of Lewiston, who were on South Avenue, said several officers stopped a silver Saab with New York license plates, ordered the occupants to lie on the pavement and handcuffed two men and a woman.

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