Longview police investigating fatal shooting on 12th Street

Updated: Feb. 15, 2017 at 9:55 PM CST

LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) - Longview police are investigating a homicide on 12th Street.

Police say that on Wednesday at 7:29 p.m., they responded to a welfare check with EMS in the 1500 block of South 12th Street. When they arrived, they found an individual lying in a vacant lot. The victim had been shot, police said. 

EMS took the victim to Good Shepherd Medical Center, where he or she died as a result of the injury. 

Police say they are investigating the shooting as a homicide and ask that anyone with information contact Det. Rebecca Reeves at 903-237-1199 or Gregg County Crimestoppers at 903-236-7867. 

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