Crime & Safety
University Heights Man Shot To Death In Cleveland
Police said the man was shot in the head and killed on Tuesday afternoon.
CLEVELAND — A University Heights man was shot to death on E. 147th Street on Tuesday afternoon, Cleveland police announced.
At about 2:30 p.m., while standing in the parking lot of the Fifth District police station, officers heard multiple gunshots. Police were then dispatched to a home on E. 147th Street for reports of a man that had been shot.
When officers arrived they found a 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his head. EMS arrived and the man was pronounced dead on the scene.
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The homicide unit and members of the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office were called to the scene. Investigators learned the 20-year-old had been on the porch of a home, with another man, when shots were fired. Police do not yet know where the shots were fired from.
On Wednesday morning, the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office identified the 20-year-old as Joseph King, 20, from University Heights.
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