A man was fatally wounded in a shooting Wednesday near a public housing development in Jamaica Plain, police said.

Officers responded to reports of a shooting on Saint Rose Street shortly before 6 p.m., said Sergeant Detective John Boyle, a police department spokesperson.

The wounded man was taken to a hospital, where he later died, police confirmed Thursday afternoon.

The man was not immediately identified.

A crime scene was set up at South Street Apartments, which border Saint Rose Street. Some onlookers from a supermarket across the street reported hearing eight to 10 gunshots.

Police homicide investigators are investigating.

If ruled a homicide, it will be the city’s 28th homicide this year, compared to 19 at the same time last year, Boyle said.

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