Two men were killed in a shootout with each other at a Fairfield gas station Friday afternoon.

The gunfire erupted about 1:45 p.m. at the Chevron on Lloyd Nolan Parkway. Witnesses and police said multiple shots were fired between the two men at the gas pumps at the service station.

One of the wounded men fled the scene in a vehicle, but made it less than a mile before he crashed into two light poles and came to a stop in the middle of the road, one of those poles still beneath his car.

The other wounded man was treated by paramedics at the Chevron and then taken to UAB Hospital by a rescue truck. He was unresponsive when he left the scene, and pronounced dead a short time later.

Fairfield police Chief Nick Dyer said at least one witness was being interviewed at Fairfield police headquarters, but said the two men are believed to have shot each other. "We're not looking for anyone else,'' he said.

Dyer said the girlfriend of the victim who was found dead in the crashed car was with him, but said the boyfriend pushed her out of the vehicle before he fled the gas station scene.

"We're trying to determine what started the argument but the (girlfriend) doesn't have a true reason,'' he said.

Police have already viewed some surveillance tape but said some of the shooting was blocked by the gas pumps. They still don't know who fired first.

Alexis Evans said she had just gotten off the bus when she heard the shots ring out. She said she heard at least nearly a half dozen. "It was awful. It was really awful,'' she said. "They just went to shooting at each other. It was bad."

The mother of one of the men rushed to the crime scene at the Chevron and collapsed into the arms of police officers. She then left to go to UAB Hospital at the advice of police.

At least 100 people gathered at the scene of the crash, including the mother, other family members and friends of the man dead inside the vehicle. The victim's mother, sitting inside an SUV, spoke with police and Jefferson County Coroner's Office officials.

Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates said it would likely be Monday before the names of the victims are publicly released.

Today's slayings bring the total number of homicides in Fairfield this year to five. The other homicides happened Feb. 20, April 7 and June 10. In all of Jefferson County, there have been 108 homicides.