Garfield shooting victim dies after being placed on life support

PITTSBURGH — A man who was put on life support after a shooting early Saturday morning in Pittsburgh’s Garfield neighborhood has died, authorities confirmed Sunday.

Police were called about 2 a.m. Saturday to a residence in the 400 block of North Aiken Avenue after they received reports that someone had been shot. Upon arrival, officers found the victim, 20-year-old Romeke Freeman, of McKees Rocks, with a gunshot wound to the head.

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Freeman was taken to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition and placed on life support, police said. He died Saturday afternoon.

The Group Violence Intervention Unit is continuing the investigation.

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