UPDATE 2/29 at 12 p.m.: The Hennepin County Medical Examiner identified the victim in the shooting as 34-year-old Pierre Romel Miller, of Minneapolis.

He died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds.

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A man is dead and three other people are injured after a shooting in south Minneapolis Tuesday afternoon.

Police say the shooting happened between an alley and a sidewalk near the intersection of the 800 block of East Franklin Avenue and Chicago Avenue just before 1:30 p.m. Investigators believe there were multiple shooters involved but did not clarify exactly how many.

Arriving officers found three victims, one of whom was a 34-year-old man with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Another victim, a 37-year-old man, was suffering from an apparent life-threatening gunshot wound. First responders took life-saving measures and the man was reportedly stabilized after being taken to the hospital.

A 37-year-old woman suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and was also taken to the hospital.

While officers were on the scene, they learned that a 31-year-old man reportedly self-transported to the hospital for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara spoke to reporters at the scene and noted that recurrent crime at the intersection has “historically been driven by narcotics sales.”

“Whenever you have a problem with fentanyl, narcotics, illicit sales, there aren’t legitimate ways to resolve disputes. That tends to create the conditions where something like this can happen,” O’Hara added.

During the news conference, Chief O’Hara also referenced another shooting in August that left five teenagers and three adults injured at the same location.

“It’s tragic because it is so concentrated in certain places, certain blocks, certain people, certain neighborhoods,” Chief O’Hara said, adding about the trauma this violence inflicts: “It’s not just the individuals who’ve been affected by this shooting here, it’s the people who live on these blocks, where all too often [the] sound of gunfire is normal background noise.” 

As MPD investigators worked the homicide scene Tuesday, a group of community members gathered to pray, including Nick Patton.

“These are streets, these are areas, and we just want to let people know that there’s hope,” Patton said.

“It just breaks my heart because there’s people that live here, and this is a community that is hurting, I mean, they’re hurting,” Patton said, adding, “And the people on the streets, they’re hurting too. And I just wish that, you know, we could find a way to just stop all this.”

Police state that no arrests have been made. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner will release the name of the man who was killed at a later time.