ST. LOUIS – Homicide detectives with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department are investigating a fatal shooting in the city’s Carr Square neighborhood.

According to a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson, the shooting took place around 7:40 a.m. Tuesday near the intersection of Cass Avenue and Hogan Street.

Police arrived to find the victim, described as an adult male, shot to death outside a residence. He’d been shot in the back and chest.

No other information has been released. FOX 2 will have more on this story as it becomes available.