CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A man who tried to commit armed robbery suffered a fatal gunshot wound Thursday at public housing on Cleveland’s East Side, according to police.

Officers responded about 10 a.m. to East 109th Street and Woodland Avenue for a call that someone shot a man. Police learned that a second victim was inside an apartment nearby on the 2400 block of Morris Black Place, part of Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority’s Woodhill Homes properties, police said.

Both men were taken to University Hospitals, where one died, police said.

The 27-year-old man found outside the apartment building died from multiple gunshot wounds, police said.

The surviving 33-year-old man told investigators he was entering the apartment on Morris Black Place when the other man approached him with a gun and tried to rob him, police said.

The two fought over the gun and it fired several times. Bullets hit both of men, he told police. The surviving man went inside the apartment. The other man ran a short distance before collapsing in a nearby courtyard, police said.

Members of the homicide unit and the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office responded to the scene.

The investigation is ongoing, Cleveland police said.

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