Scummy G apparently is dead.

As St. Paul police homicide investigators went in and out of a house in Dayton’s Bluff where a man was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound Tuesday morning, people who said they were friends of the victim approached the yellow crime tape to see what happened to the person they called Scummy G.

“One of our friends got killed in there,” said one man who drove up to the tape blocking off the street on the 800 block of East Fourth Street. The man who identified himself as only Shawn, said, “The police know what happened to him.”

“If they can’t find out, we will,” he said before he and a passenger sped off in his car.

According to police, at about 3:30 a.m., an anonymous caller reported to police that a man had died at the location. When officers arrived, they found the man dead of an apparent gunshot wound. Police said the Ramsey County medical examiner’s office is identifying the victim.

But Tamieshey Brown, who lives near the house, said Twitter users had begun posting RIP messages, identifying the victim by the name “Scummy G.”

“My friend just texted me and said he was shot in the back of the head,” Brown said. “Word gets around.”

Brown said she didn’t know the man but added, “I just wish it would stop. I don’t know what happened, but I’m sick of seeing yellow tape.”

Another man who approached the cordoned-off scene identified himself only as Smurf.

“I just heard one of my friends died,” he said. “The word got out fast. It was on Facebook.”

He said Scummy G was in his late 20s and had a son about 1 year old.

“He wasn’t in no gang,” the man said. “He was a cool person.”

So far police have characterized the incident as a suspicious death. If determined to be a homicide, it would be the 14th killing in the city this year.

Police are asking anyone with information about the death to call the St. Paul police homicide unit at 651-266-5650.

Richard Chin can be reached at 651-228-5560. Follow him at twitter.com/RRChin.