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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A moving gunfight between the occupants of two vehicles on the West Side Friday evening ended in a devastating crash that left two innocent bystanders injured — one of them critically — and a man in jail, according to Albuquerque police.

Gerald Chavez, 34, was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center on charges of shooting at or from a motor vehicle, aggravated DWI resulting in bodily injury, great bodily injury by vehicle and leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in great bodily harm or death.

Detectives say Chavez was driving a truck and exchanging gunfire with someone in a car before getting into back-to-back crashes – the second one sending a woman to a hospital with severe injuries.

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It is unclear if police ever found the other vehicle involved in the shoot-out, and Albuquerque police have not given any updates on the woman’s condition.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court:

Officers responded to the second crash around 7:30 p.m. at Coors and Fortuna NW, after two vehicles – a car and truck – blew through a red light and the truck collided with another vehicle. Two women were taken to a hospital, and officers caught up with Chavez a mile away after he fled on foot.

Chavez refused to speak with officers, simply stating “lawyer,” but police say he had bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol.

The truck had several bullet holes in it, and officers found a firearm magazine in the street nearby.

In the first crash, police say two women were sitting in a car parked along a street at 64th and Avalon when a sedan and truck crashed into them. The women told police that people in the truck and a car were shooting at each other in a nearby neighborhood as they crashed into their car and drove away. One of the women told officers she could see “flashes and hear gunshots” as the vehicles fled north on Coors, where the second, rollover crash occurred moments later.

After the second crash, a 911 caller followed Chavez as he ran away on foot and updated police dispatch until officers arrived to take him into custody.