Yakima police have launched a homicide investigation into the death of a 24-year-old Yakima man killed by a gunshot on Monday.

A visitor found the body of Enrique Ramirez-Briggs at 9:15 a.m. in an apartment at 1108 Cherry Ave., according to police.

Officers said the police department received a call of shots being fired in the neighborhood around 7 a.m., but they were not able to find anything at that time.

His death marks the city's first homicide of 2016. Last year, the city had six homicides