One man is dead following a shooting that happened on Winnipeg's Stradbrook Avenue early on Saturday morning.

Police say 36-year-old Paul Joseph Thorne was shot in the upper body shortly before 12:30 a.m.

By 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, police tape sectioned off an area beside 414 Stradbrook Avenue with a single police cruiser parked nearby it.

Thorne was transported to the hospital, where he later died of his injuries.

No arrests have been made, and the Winnipeg Police Service's homicide unit is investigating. Anyone with information about the shooting or the person responsible for it is asked to call investigators at 204-986-6508.