BATON ROUGE- A homeless man is dead after an early morning shooting in the 1000 block of Coolidge Street.

Here is the scene on Coolidge St. where one person is dead. Investigators searching wooded area behind that black pickup truck @WBRZ pic.twitter.com/5YjGnaM8Bq

— Johnston vonSpringer (@johnstonvon) June 4, 2018

The incident happened before 6 a.m. Monday morning. A witness at the scene told WBRZ he heard several shots, silence, then more gunfire about 10 minutes later. 

Police later identified the victim as 57-year-old Jerry Johnson, a homeless man. BRPD says investigators still have no motive or suspect in the shooting.

Just spoke with a witness who lives nearby. Told me he heard 5 rounds, silence, and then 5 more rounds.

Says gunshots are a common sound in the area @WBRZ

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— Johnston vonSpringer (@johnstonvon) June 4, 2018

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