An investigation is underway after a man was shot to death in a Woodlawn parking lot early Monday.

Just after 5 a.m., East Precinct officers received a call of a person inside a van the parking lot of a building in the 5500 block of First Avenue North.

Police found the man dead inside.

Initially, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald, officers could not determine how the man had died.

Once the body was taken to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office, they determined he had been shot.

The victim was an employee of ADW Temporary Staffing, and was in the parking lot about to go to work.

Investigators believe the victim got into a physical altercation with the unknown suspect who approached him while he was seated inside his van.

“The suspect shot the victim and fled,” Fitzgerald said.

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