Blake's shooting was captured in a video taken by a bystander. 

The Wisconsin Department of Justice, Division of Criminal Investigation, is leading the investigating into the shooting. The department said the officers involved have been placed on administrative leave while the investigation is underway.

Kenosha Police said the incident began when officers were called to the 2800 block of 40th Street at 5:11 p.m. Sunday for a domestic incident.

More than 60 people were gathered after the shooting at the scene, with several saying that the Black man was trying to break up a verbal altercation between two women shortly after 5 p.m.

According to the Wisconsin Department of Justice, police gave immediate aid to the man, who was transported via Flight for Life to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa.

Dozens of squad cars from the Kenosha Police and Kenosha County Sheriff’s department and Wisconsin State Patrol converged in the Wilson Heights neighborhood, lining the streets approaching the scene.

At least a half dozen witnesses said the man had tried to break up a fight between the two women outside a home at 2805 40th St. and that police had attempted to use a Taser on the man prior to the shooting. Then, they heard at least seven gunshots ring out.

Witnesses said he was unarmed and shot in the back.

A video that has since gone viral on social media shows the man walking away from officers and going around the vehicle to get inside. While the man is entering the vehicle, the video shows an officer firing a gun at the man inside the vehicle. A woman in the video is screaming as he is being shot.

It was not immediately known whether the man had a weapon.

Residents who live across the street from the residence said while they have heard gunfire in the neighborhood before, it was never that close until Sunday.

“We’ve never had anything like this happen before,” said Juventino Camputano, who has lived in the neighborhood for 40 years.

Annie Louise Hurst, a 50-year resident of the neighborhood, just shook her head.

“This is just a tragedy. It’s just so sad,” she said.

“There’s never been nothing like this before,” said her husband John.

As people from the neighborhood and outside the neighborhood ventured toward the scene, more law enforcement officers arrived, adding at least two more buffer zones with crime scene tape boundaries.

A vehicle with an amplifier blaring an NWA song momentarily encouraged the crowd to chant expletives at officers standing guard in the street. From time to time, people would approach the officers expressing anger for shooting the man while they brought out camera phones to record their actions.

An hour later, members of the local Black Lives Matter movement in Kenosha, along with a representative from the Lake County movement, also arrived to protest the shooting.

County Board Supervisor Zach Rodriguez, who also arrived at the scene, said the whole incident highlights the need for officers wearing body cameras as he pointed out how city officers do not wear them. Sheriff’s deputies also do not have body cameras.

In July, however, the Kenosha County Board voted 22-0 to direct finance staff to include body cameras for the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department in next year’s budget.

“This situation that happened here today, whether it ends up being justified or not, this highlights the need for the city, the mayor especially, to address the situation this year with this budget,” he said. “And commit to all citizens to say that our officers are going to carry this equipment.”