A 38-year-old man is dead after he was shot in the back shortly before 4 p.m. Saturday while a passenger in a vehicle near the intersection of Oregon Avenue and Chariton Street, according to St. Louis police.

The area is in the city's south side Dutchtown neighborhood. Shortly after 4 p.m., the man was dropped off at St. Louis University Hospital about five miles away, police said.

No other details have been released.

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