A woman is dead and a man is in custody following the report of a shooting Friday evening in the Greater East Side neighborhood of St. Paul.

The shooting report came in about 5:45 p.m. from the 1900 block of Cottage Avenue East, according to St. Paul police Sgt. Mike Ernster.

Officers arrived to find a woman with an apparent gunshot wound. St. Paul paramedics pronounced the woman dead.

Several witnesses were brought to the police station for questioning, Ernster said, and one of those people then was taken into custody as a suspect in the shooting.

The woman who was killed and the man suspected in her death were in a relationship and lived together in the home where the shooting occurred, Ernster said. No other suspects are being sought.