BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Police are investigating after a man was shot in Midfield and drove into Birmingham Thursday evening.

The young male victim was shot near the Midfield Recreation Center and was picked up by Birmingham authorities in a vehicle with other people on Bessemer Road at Avenue V in Birmingham around 6:45 p.m., Birmingham police Sgt. Vonric Slaughter said.

The man had been shot in the chest but is stable now, Slaughter said.

Slaughter said the victim was on his way to Princeton Baptist Medical Center when Birmingham police were flagged down and they pulled into a gas station on Bessemer Road.

Midfield police are working a scene where the shooting happened, and both departments have detained people, but no arrests have been made.