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Cherisse Halsall reporting
This surveillance video shows Mark Clarke Clarke sitting in front of a building on New Road where he always hangs out - when a gunman on bicycle pulls up from behind a moving car and casually fires as many as 7 shots at close range.

Incredibly - even though he was shot multiple times, the 42 year old Clarke gathers himself and sits back up - while a policeman on foot comes from the check point just a few hundred feet away clutching his 38 revolver - which is when Clarke goes unconscious.

A bystander with a cell phone captures him in that moment - where it looked like a man on the precipice of death.

But, we met him today at home - his head bandaged - and slightly the worse for wear, but cogent and in fair health:

Mark Clark, Shooting Victim
"I was sitting down and a gunman just pulled up and fired several shots and three of those shots caught me. One up here and two in my legs here, but I didn't really see the gunman's face you know, and after that I fell down and the police rushed me to the hospital."

The 42 year old who is a construction worker was shot right here in February of this year. He survived that shot to the head - and says he knows who did it this time and why:

Mark Clark, Shooting Victim
"I think it's the same one who did it before did it again. That's what I believe."

"When the police ran up he saw the gunman running down the street and he didn't even chase the gunman. He stayed right there and the gunman had already gotten away jumped the fence and got away and went across the bridge because he is from over the bridge he's not from this side here."

"It's because of my son. I have a son through Pink's alley who is a Devaughn and they can't catch him so they have to finish me off, you know."

"They have beef because the Pink's alley one's are Crips and the others over are Bloods. But I haven't seen my son for many years because he doesn't come on this side here because the whole neighborhood this side are bloods so he doesn't come to this side. Worse, I don't see my two daughters because I have10 kids but only now and again my two daughters come to say hi to me because they are afraid to come around here because of the crowd around here."

"Here" is an area blanketed by police checkpoints almost at every corner - and it explains why police on foot arrived at the scene within seconds of the shooting.

And, they took Clarke away in a mobile within minutes - racing him to the KHMH:

Cherisse Halsall:
"What are the doctors saying about your condition now?"

Mark Clark, Shooting Victim
"They are saying that I should have gone back today but right now I'm kind of weak. I can't go back right now because I just trying to heal myself. I'll try to go back around Friday to try and take out the bullets but they are saying they can't take the bullets out because the shots I got before, they don't know which one to operate on because this one here is lodged in came from through here and lodged itself here. So they don't know when they will be able to, but probably within the week I'll go back to the hospital and see if I can take it out."

Now, this waking man says he just wants to get back to work and not be targeted anymore:

Mark Clark, Shooting Victim
"I never did see the youth's face and it was kind of dark and he had his cap way down."

"So I don't really know what the gunman's problem was but he better find who he's looking for because I don't have any problem with them. I'm at work everyday, I'm barely at home."

Police have reportedly detained Clarke's son Devaughn as a preventative measure against retaliatory activities concerning this shooting.