REDWOOD CITY — A person found shot behind a supermarket died early Thursday, police said. Police were dispatched to the corner of Adams Street at Jefferson Avenue about 1:40 a.m. after receiving reports that somebody was down in the road behind the Whole Foods Market, Redwood City spokesperson Capt. Ashley Osborne said in a statement.

A person was fatally shot behind a supermarket in Redwood City early Thursday morning, according to police. According to Lt. Jeff Clements of the Redwood City Police Department, officers learned that someone was lying on the road behind the Whole Foods Market store in the area of Adams Street and Jefferson Avenue.

Redwood City police on Thursday were investigating an early morning fatal shooting near a supermarket, according to the police department. At about 1:40 a.m. Thursday, Redwood City officers responded to a report of a person down in the roadway on Adams at Jefferson Avenue to the rear of a Whole Foods Market,