Police are investigating the discovery in Ste Madeleine on Tuesday morning of the bullet-riddled body of an unidentified man who was found with a Marvin Gaye-style face mask with two eye holes and $20 in his pockets.

Police are seeking the assistance of the public to identify the deceased, who was clad in a white tee-shirt bearing a handprint and skull design on the front, a pair of black denim short jeans, red, green and black Gucci slippers, and a gold chain around his neck.

The body was that of a man of African descent, brown complexion, slim build, age estimated to be in his late twenties, approximately 180 centimetres (five feet eleven inches tall), no visible tattoos, with afro hairstyle and a short goatee beard.