MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) – Occupants of two vehicles heading east on Dauphin Street shot each other near the Interstate 65 interchange on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

Officer Katrina Frazier, spokesperson for the Mobile Police Department, told FOX10 News it was not known exactly what triggered the violence. But she said one of the gunmen was shot and wounded. She said investigators followed her to the hospital, hoping to learn more about what happened.

“It’s such a fluid situation,” she said. “Investigators everywhere are trying to piece this together.”

Mobile County Sheriff‘s Office captain Paul Burch said one of his detectives was in the area when he heard the shots.

“One of our investigators was sitting at an intersection right next to Dauphin and 65; heard what he believed to be 15 to 20 shots at very close range, ”he told FOX10 News. “As he begins to look around, sees a blue car, begins to drive erratically above the median.”

Burch said the detective followed the vehicle onto I-65 and out of Springhill Avenue. He said the Blue Kia had pulled over and investigators found the driver had been shot.

During the exchange of gunfire, a bullet apparently crossed the median and pierced the reading door on the driver’s side, and into a laundry basket in the back seat of the vehicle moving in the opposite direction.

The three women in the car were shaken, but otherwise unharmed. They told FOX10 News that they were coming back from doing laundry.

Sheila Jackson, who was caught in traffic in the aftermath and expressed disgust at the violence.

“I’m sick of it,” she said. “It’s ridiculous. We have to do something different. We have to start loving each other and stop all this nonsense. It has to stop.

The shooting is the latest in what has turned out to be a particularly bloody year in the port city.

“It appears that we are witnessing an unprecedented level of violence,” said Burch. “In particular, people who are willing to use guns when you have a shootout at one of Mobile’s busiest intersections, in broad daylight. It just makes me angry that people are willing to risk other people’s lives to settle their differences in the middle of an intersection.

Update at 5:50 p.m. with additional information.

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