A man was shot to death Saturday afternoon in a gas station outside two busy east Birmingham shopping areas.

About 4:45 p.m, a man walked up to officers at the East Precinct and said he had just shot someone nearby, at the Murphy USA outside Walmart on Roebuck Plaza Drive.

Police rushed to the gas station and found the man unresponsive on the floor. Fire medics pronounced him dead on the scene.

Sgt. LaQuitta Wade said police had received calls at 4:44 p.m. of an irate customer inside the store. Officers were being dispatched when the shooter showed up at the precinct.

Multiple calls then started coming in reporting a physical altercation followed by shots fired in the gas station.

The gunfire shattered the glass on the store’s door.

Wade said the man who was killed was not the store clerk. It was not immediately clear if the slain man was the irate customer or someone else who was there.

The man who fired the fatal shots is being questioned. Wade did not say if he works at the business.

“As we’ve stated before, people need to find some other way to resolve conflict before resorting to gun violence and taken a loved one from their family,” Wade said.

There were other customers in the store at the time, but nobody else was injured.