A 23-year-old man was shot Thursday night during a dice game and later died at a Nashville hospital.

An investigation found that Dashawn Ellison was fatally shot at 9:30 p.m. while playing a dice game at an apartment in the 1500 block of Ninth Avenue North, Metro Nashville police said in a news release.

Ellison died soon after arriving at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

North Precinct detectives are pursuing "strong leads" in the case, Metro police said.

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