An investigation is underway in Philadelphia to identify a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy, whose body was found in a dumpster, according to police.

The grisly discovery was made in West Philadelphia by a city Housing Authority sanitation worker, according to Philadelphia Police Department officials.

Staff Inspector Ernest Ransom, head of the police department’s homicide unit, identified the child Thursday afternoon as Hezekiah Bernard and said that at the time of his death he was in the custody city Department of Human Services.