An investigation into the Thursday night shooting death of a 30-year-old Savannah man is underway by homicide detectives of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department.

Central Precinct patrol officers responded to a shooting at 8 p.m. outside Heritage Place apartments on the 700 block of Lavinia Street to find Alonzo Lee Richardson with a gunshot wound.

He was transported to Memorial University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.