LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A Friday afternoon Lexington shooting is now deadly.

The Lexington Police Department posted on social media that officers were dispatched at around 2:50 p.m. Friday to the 1100 block of Centre Parkway, which is near Fayette County’s School’s Tates Creek campus, for a shooting with a victim.

When officers arrived, police say they located a male victim who had been shot.

Police say the victim was transported to a nearby hospital where they later died.

The Lexington Police Department said while the shooting did not occur on school property, schools in the area have been notified.

A spokesperson for Fayette County Public Schools reports that the Tates Creek Campus (Elementary, Middle and High schools) are on “Heightened Alert” due to police activity in the area. Al

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