LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville Metro Police is investigating after a man was found shot inside a vehicle on Dixie Highway near Valley Station in southwest Jefferson County.
According to LMPD spokesperson Aaron Ellis, 3rd Division officers responded on a report of a shooting in the 14500 block of Dixie Highway around 7 p.m. Thursday.
Once on scene, officers located a man "believed to be in his 30s suffering from a gunshot wound inside a vehicle" and he was transported to University of Louisville Hospital in critical condition, Ellis said.
The Jefferson County Coroner's Office has identified the man as 30-year-old Julius Richie.
Richie later "succumbed to his wounds" at the hospital, Ellis said in an update early Friday morning.
LMPD's Homicide Unit is investigating. Anyone with information is asked to call the anonymous Crime Tip Hotline at 574-LMPD (5673) or use the online Crime Tip portal at LMPD Crime Tip Portal.
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