UPDATE 12:03 p.m. This is a homicide investigation.
EMS rushed a male victim to University Hospital this morning after a shooting in the city's East Ward.
Reports of shots fired that rang out in the 300 block of Mulberry Street had police at the scene shortly before 2:30 a.m. where officers found the victim shot in the head at that location.
Police focused their attention on a vehicle found in the parking lot with a bullet hole in the rear driver's side window.
The extent of the victim's injuries were not released.
The motive for the shooting is under investigation.