DETROIT – Police are investigating a deadly shooting outside a gas station on Detroit's west side.
Two men were shot and killed about 5:30 a.m. Thursday outside the Clark gas station at Schaefer Highway and Puritan Avenue.
Detroit police had the corner blocked off as officers investigate. The victims were lying on the sidewalk.
Police have identified the victims as a 25-year-old man and a 39-year-old man who were having a dispute about a woman.
The 39-year-old is the woman's current boyfriend. The 25-year-old man, identified by family as Martez Fenderson, is her ex-boyfriend. The men agreed to meet and both fired gunshots at each other at the same time.
Fenderson was shot in his head. The 39-year-old man was shot in his chest. Both of them were found dead at the scene.
Police said the men shot each other simultaneously. Both were armed with handguns. Police called the gun battle "close" quartered.
The girlfriend witnessed the shooting at the gas station. Police say she is providing details.
Fenderson's sister says her brother had two children.
"He wasn't in the streets," Davida Gray said. "He worked hard and he loved to ride his bike. He wasn't ever in the streets like that."
A woman who lives nearby said she heard about 10 gunshots fired.
"I just heard the gunshots. I heard a bunch of gunshots and then I waited for a minute and I heard the police sirens," said Tonya Preston. "It's crazy. This is going to be a hot and bad summer, and it's getting crazier and crazier. It's not the world, it's the people in it."