BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Police have identified the man killed Monday morning in a shooting in Buffalo's Ellicott District as Ernest Maddox, 27.

Police said Maddox was shot on the first block of Roehrer Avenue just after midnight, and declared dead at the scene.

At a prayer vigil Tuesday night, family members said they remember Maddox as a man who touched the lives of everyone around him.

Vigil organizers say Maddox leaves behind a fiance and three children.

Anyone with information on the incident should call or text the department's confidential TIPCALL Line at (716) 847-2255.