Shane Su­perville

Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy the body of a man whose body was found in Ari­ma on Mon­day night.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion were on pa­trol at around 9.50 pm when they re­ceived a re­port of gun­shots at Tem­ple Street, Ari­ma and went to the scene.

Of­fi­cers found the bloody body of a man in a drain near an aban­doned house on Gas­ton Ruiz Street, off Tem­ple Street.

The man ap­peared to be of African de­scent and was wear­ing a red vest, black short pants and a pair of white sneak­ers.

A dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer vis­it­ed the scene and de­clared the man dead.

Crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors found eight spent shells, three bul­let frag­ments and a cell phone.

Po­lice from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion II are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.