Hamilton police investigating fatal shooting in city’s east end Sunday

Hamilton police say a 19-year-old man is dead after a shooting in the city’s east end early Sunday morning.

Police said they received reports around 4 a.m. that a person had been shot in the area of 470 Beach Road, just north of the Centre on Barton between Ottawa Street North and Kenilworth Avenue North.

A group of people attempted to transport the victim to hospital in a vehicle and came upon a fire station in the area of Dalhousie Avenue and Ottawa Street North, police said. The victim was then put into an ambulance and brought to Hamilton General Hospital by paramedics.

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He was pronounced dead at the hospital around 6 a.m.

The victim has been identified as Natshon Defreitas of Toronto.

This is Hamilton’s sixth homicide of 2018.

Police were in the area of the shooting Sunday morning investigating and conducting a canvass.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Det. Andrew Coughlan at 905-546-3874 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.