SEATTLE - A fight between two total strangers led to a fatal shooting in downtown Seattle Saturday morning.

It happened at Fourth Avenue and Pine Street, at 11:30 a.m., in the heart of the shopping area.

Police said a man who was visiting downtown and minding his own business was brutally attacked by a stranger. But the victim of that attack had a gun and license to carry it. So he shot his attacker.

Police said they received complaints about a man who had been harassing shoppers about a half hour before the incident. But the suspect then began assaulting a complete stranger, kicking him repeatedly

“We heard a loud noise, we looked out the window there was a black man standing over somebody with a gun in his hand then he was walking around. And he was saying: ‘I shot him,’” said witness Annette Johnson.

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The assault happened just outside Westlake Center.

Emergency crews rushed to the scene.

“When officers saw the person he did not attempt to run,” said Jim Pugel of the Seattle Police Department. “He said: ‘I'm the one who did it and he handed the weapon to the officers.’”

The man who fired the gun was taken in for questioning.

Aid crews transported the man who was shot to Harborview hospital where he later died.

Police said they have no plans to charge the man who fired the weapon but are still investigating the case.