photo by: Chris Conde/Journal-World

Police were interviewing residents and searching the area near Cedarwood and Kent late Saturday morning in relation to an overnight homicide.

The Lawrence Police Department is asking the public to help identify the victim of an early-morning homicide in west Lawrence as well as information on the crime.

According to a post on the Lawrence Police Department’s Facebook page, officers responded to reports of gunfire shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday in the vicinity of 24th Street and Cedarwood Avenue and started interviewing people near the scene. Meanwhile, police officers who were proactively dispatched to LMH Health observed a car speeding to the emergency entrance. Officers pulled a wounded male victim from the back of the vehicle, who was later pronounced dead by hospital staff.

LPD spokeswoman Laura McCabe told the Journal-World that the victim had been shot at least twice, once in the chest.

photo by: Chris Conde/Journal-World

Police were interviewing residents and searching the area near Cedarwood and Kent late Saturday morning in relation to an overnight homicide.

The Lawrence Police Department has not yet identified the victim, who is described as a white male thought to be in his 20s with sandy brown hair, the post states. During interviews with police, the three occupants of the vehicle who brought the victim to LMH said they did not know the victim’s identity. Investigators are seeking more information on the occupants of the vehicle and have canvassed the area of the crime scene and spoken to “dozens” of residents, the post states.

The Lawrence Police Department will continue to investigate the homicide and will share more information as it becomes available. The department asks that anyone with information who has not been contacted by police call the Crime Stopper hotline at 785-843-TIPS or 911.