One person died early Sunday morning after an encounter with security outside a sports bar in North Philadelphia, police said. 

Officers responded to a call about a person with a gun outside a bar on the 3400 block of North 2nd Street around 2:40 a.m., Philadelphia police said. When they arrived, they found a male victim with a gunshot wound to his head. He was transported to Temple University Hospital and pronounced dead just before 3 a.m., according to police. 

The preliminary investigation found that the victim was inside the bar before being kicked out by security, police said. The victim returned with a gun but was confronted by armed security. He was fatally shot, but police did not say who fired the shot.

The homicide unit is investigating the incident, police said. 

This story has been updated to clarify what police reported about the shooting.