EAST ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – East St. Louis police continue looking for a motive in Thursday night’s deadly shooting there.

Police say they got a call of shots being fired shortly before 11 p.m.  Officers went to investigate, but found nothing.

Then Friday morning, a resident in the 1600 block of North 43rd Street found a body in his yard.  The victim has been identified as  18-year-old Lee Morton of East St. Louis.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to call East St. Louis police at 618-482-6767.