ST. LOUIS • A man was hit in the leg during a shootout with carjackers near Busch Stadium that left a robber critically wounded Monday night, police said.

The victim, 27, told police he was inside his parked vehicle in the 900 block of Spruce Street about 10:30 p.m. when a man approached and announced a robbery. The victim got out of his vehicle and the robber got in, but the victim had a gun and shot five times at the robber, police said.

The carjacker crashed the vehicle. Television footage from the scene showed the windows of the man’s pickup had been shattered.

Two people in a nearby Mitsubishi were described by police as other suspects in the carjacking, and someone began firing shots at the carjacking victim from the car, police said. He returned fire, hitting the Mitsubishi, then ran into a nearby business for help, police said. He had been shot in the leg at some point, police said. He was taken to a hospital, treated and released.

Meanwhile, the two people in the Mitsubishi — a man and a woman, according to authorities — put the injured carjacker in the car and drove to a hospital, police said.