By Associated Press - Thursday, October 4, 2018

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Des Moines police are investigating the early morning shooting death of a man.

Police say officers and fire department medics responded at 2:25 a.m. Thursday to a shooting report on the city’s north side.

Officers found a man with a gunshot wound and medics transported him to a hospital, where he later died.

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The man was identified as 42-year-old Thurmon Tervale Cole, of Des Moines.

Police are investigating and there have been no arrests.

It’s the city’s 10th homicide this year.

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