In what looked like the Shootout at the OK Corral, at least two people died and seven were wounded as fighting broke out between opposing groups of flag-waving political activists on Sunday in northern low income suburb of the Province of Santo Domingo. Two of the injured were listed as critical. The director of the Los Alcarrizos Medical Center said he had received two patients with bullet wounds and one with wounds from a shotgun. Dramatic photos in the Diario Libre and the El Caribe show gun-toting men firing their weapons. The fight between partisans of the PLD and PRD parties lasted nearly 30 minutes, and, so far, the cause is unknown. According to some reports, the exchange began after a shot rang out from the second story of a commercial building in the area. Jayson Alexis Alvarez, a PLD flag-waver, was killed almost instantly and municipal police officer Ramon Antonio Jimenez, who was just doing his job to control the crowd when the shooting broke out, was fatally struck by a bullet in the neck. Both political parties accuse the other of having started the violence. PLD Congressional Deputy Ramon Idelfonso Vasquez, who was participating in the flag-waving demonstration, said that the PRD members on the other side of the street began throwing stones and bottles. Meanwhile, the mayor of Santo Domingo West, Francisco Pena, assured reporters that the PLD was the instigator.