Man shot dead at Lowell apartment complex, investigation underway

A man was shot and killed at an apartment complex in Lowell Friday afternoon, the Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan’s office said.

Lowell police responded to the complex on on Pawtucket Boulevard just before 4 p.m., Ryan’s office said in a statement. When they arrived, they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds.

He was taken to a local hospital, where he later died, the statement said.

Investigators determined that the two men, who knew each other from the complex, got into an altercation, the statement said.

Both men possessed firearms. The other man stayed at the scene, the statement said. There is no threat to the public.

The investigation is ongoing.