The police hunt for a man and woman, dubbed a "modern-day Bonnie and Clyde" by the U.S. Marshals Service, ended in bloodshed early Friday when one suspect was killed and the other wounded during a shootout with Florida police.

According to the Escambia County Sheriff's Office, Blake Edward Fitzgerald, 30, exchanged gunfire with police at about 12:30 a.m. Friday, following a high-speed chase.

"[They] had nowhere to go," William Eddins, state attorney of the First Judicial Circuit, said during a Friday press conference.

Authorities said Fitzgerald used his girlfriend, Brittany Nicole Harper, also 30, as a human shield during the exchange of gunfire in a residential neighborhood.