The victim of a deadly early morning shooting near a supermarket in Redwood City was an 18-year-old resident, police said Thursday evening.

Redwood City police were investigating an apparent shooting as a homicide after finding a person dead behind a Whole Foods Market early Thursday. At approximately 1:40 a.m., officers received a report of a person lying on Adams Street at Jefferson Avenue,

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.