Law enforcement officials are investigating after a shooting on Tuesday evening left a 20-year-old man dead.
According to police, at about 9:50 p.m. on Tuesday, officers responding to a call of a person with a gun along the 600 block of N. Preston Street found 20-year-old Kameir Scott of West Philadelphia laying in a vacant lot after he had been shot multiple times.
Officials said Scott was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced at about 10:12 p.m.
According to law enforcement officials, there is no known motive for this shooting and no arrest has been made, but an investigation is ongoing.
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