The barrage of gunfire that left one man dead and six others wounded in the parking lot of a Birmingham gas station appeared to be indiscriminate gunfire likely not meant for any one person.

At least 150 shots rang out just after 2 a.m. Sunday.

Birmingham police began receiving Shot Spotter alerts in the 700 and 800 blocks of Third Avenue West. The location is the always-busy area surrounding Shell, Burger King, Auto Zone and Express Oil Change and Tire Engineers.

When the shooting stopped, 24-year-old David Isaiah Westbrook of Wartrace, Tennessee, was dead.

He was found inside a vehicle that crashed into a utility pole and Birmingham Police Chief Scott Thurmond said Monday he is believed to have been an innocent bystander.

Six other men were injured, ages 24, 22, 26, and two 19-year-olds. The age of the most seriously injured victim – who remains hospitalized – has not been determined.

That Shell station is a popular hang out on the weekends, and has long been a trouble spot, Thurmond said. One YouTube video from a different weekend shows numerous people packed in the parking lot, listening to music and waiving around guns.

Thurmond on Monday said detectives reviewed video surveillance footage from there during the shooting and it showed multiple people with guns shooting.

“A review of the video surveillance showed numerous individuals shooting randomly as if they were just firing their guns. Most did not know who or what they were shooting at, which caused the victims to be shot,’’ Thurmond said.

“We’ve seen this there before unfortunately,’’ he said. “We have people just firing indiscriminately.”

“They don’t know who they’re shooting at, what they’re shooting at, they’re just firing rounds from their guns,’’ the chief said. “That causes a lot of danger to the people who are there which resulted in these people being shot. They’re just shooting rounds all over the place.”

“This was, ‘I just heard shots and I’ve got my gun so I’m going to shoot so I can get some shots in for bragging rights,’’’ Thurmond said.

No charges have yet been announced.

“Detectives are diligently working to determine what started the shooting and who is responsible,’’ Thurmond said. “This investigation is in its early stages and some information is just unknown at this time.”

He said the victims don’t know who shot them.

“That’s part of the problem,’’ the chief said. “With people just shooting all over the place, you don’t know who shot who. The people who fired the guns probably don’t know they actually shot people.”

Officers with the department’s Operation Knight Rider – an ongoing effort to curb exhibition driving and street racing – were in the area at the time and responded to the shooting scene. Those officers detained two people for questioning who were near the scene trying to dispose of guns.

Thurmond said there are times when there is a heavier police presence near the Shell and nearby business.

“There are certain nights that we have an increased presence there as part of Operation Knight Rider,’’ Thurmond said.

“There’s many different parts to Operation Knight Rider and without jeopardizing how it works and the different facets of it, different strategies we deploy to keep certain areas safe and certain areas we deploy to so we can make arrests for the individuals participating.”

Thurmond said department leaders met Monday morning. “There will be some new strategies that we’ve discussed about how we will try to address that moving forward,’’ he said.

He said property owners that allow large gatherings on their proper must take accountability.

“They’re responsible for their property which has been an ongoing issue for a number of years,’’ he said. “Almost as far as I can remember that location has been problematic, so they’ve got to have some stake in the game and do their part as well and some of the other businesses in the area as well need to do the same.”

“They’re not the only where people are hanging out in their parking lots,’’ he said.

Thurmond said the Business Compliance Unit is investigating and will report their findings to Birmingham City Council’s Public Safety Committee.

Anyone with information is asked to call Birmingham police at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.