A man critically wounded in a shootout on Interstate 59/20 in eastern Birmingham was formally pronounced dead early Sunday.

The Birmingham Police Department identified the victim as Edward Tyurri Matthews. He was 29.

Birmingham police and fire medics responded about 3:30 p.m. to the Shell service station on Oporto-Madrid Boulevard and Fifth Avenue North. Once on the scene, they found Matthews - a passenger in an SUV - suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.

He was taken to UAB hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

Police said it appeared it started with shots fired between two vehicles on Interstate 59/20. The SUV then exited the interstate and stopped at the Shell for help.

Sgt. Johnny Williams on Sunday said investigators learned the passengers of the SUV were involved in an altercation with another vehicle – a gray sedan – on I-59 northbound just before Matthews was shot and the gray vehicle wrecked.

Williams said the suspects from the gray vehicle fled the scene prior to the officers’ arrival.

One witness said when he pulled up on the wreck, bystanders had already pulled two women from the crashed vehicle. He pulled a man suffering from a head injury from the car. Another man, he said, fled the crash scene. One of the women told him the dark SUV had pulled up alongside them and shots were fired.

Williams said detectives have not yet determined a motive for the shootout. No arrests have been announced.

Matthews is the 95th homicide so far in 2018. Of those, six have been ruled justifiable and therefore the Birmingham Police Department will not include those in its year-end tally. There have been 140 homicides in all of Jefferson County, including the 95 in Birmingham.

Anyone with information on Saturday’s shooting is asked to call Birmingham homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.