ATLANTA -- A man and woman burst into a home and shot the occupant Sunday, but he returned fire and fatally wounded one of the intruders, police said.

The resident was hospitalized in critical condition after the home invasion on Markone Street in Northwest Atlanta.

The female intruder drove the wounded robber to a gas station, asked to use the telephone, and then fled, the gas station attendant said.

"He was foaming out of the mouth as we were pulling him out," Harold Russell said. "She just said, 'My boyfriend got shot in the chest.'"

The wounded man was taken to Grady Hospital, where he died. He was identified as Jason Warner, 21.

Police were searching for the woman Sunday night.

She was thought to be driving a silver Dodge Stratus.

Channel Two's Tom Jones contributed to this report.