Kent Police are investigating the shooting death of a man found along East Saar Street between Central Avenue South and Railroad Avenue South near downtown.
A 911 call at about 10:16 a.m. Thursday reported an unconscious man in a car near the 300 block of Central Avenue South said Kent Police spokesman Jarod Kasner. Witnesses started to perform CPR on the man in the street. Officers and paramedics arrived a short time later and continued CPR before the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officers then saw that the man had a single gunshot wound in the upper body, Kasner said.
“We are canvassing the neighborhood and looking for other evidence that could help us discern what took place here,” Kasner said early in the afternoon.
Kasner said he didn’t have an age for the man.
Police said in a 4:15 p.m. Thursday media release that they are not releasing the identity of the victim and no suspects have been identified in what they called a suspicious death.
“We don’t know a lot,” Kasner said.
The King County Medical Examiner’s Office will release the name of the victim, possibly as soon as Friday.
Detectives looked at a blue car, reportedly driven by the man, parked crooked westbound in the middle of the street right next to the man’s body.
East Saar Street runs just a short distance between Central Avenue and Railroad Avenue. The nearby businesses include South Central Food Mart and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
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