Officials have identified a St. Paul man who was shot and killed in the Whittier neighborhood of south Minneapolis.
The victim was 34-year-old Alex Manuel Castro Funes the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said in a Monday news release.
Castro Funes was found unresponsive about 5:30 a.m. Friday near Nicollet Avenue and Cecil Newman Lane, along a stretch commonly known as Eat Street. Officers from the Fifth Precinct were responding to reports of a possible overdose when they found him with a gunshot wound to the arm.
Castro Funes was taken to HCMC where he died.
His death was ruled a homicide. No suspects were arrested as of Monday evening, and police had not provided more information about the shooting circumstances.
The case still is under investigation.
