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Medics find man dead from gunshot wound on East Liberty street

PITTSBURGH — A man was found dead in the middle of an East Liberty street, shot in the chest Monday.

The body was found less than a half-mile from a very popular Target on Penn Avenue and across from a post office.

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Investigators have released few details about what happened around 8 p.m. Monday.

According to police, it started out as a call for a medical emergency.

When medics responded to Enright Place in East Liberty, they found a man's body in the street and determined he'd been shot in the chest.

On Thursday, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the shooting victim as 37-year-old Norman Clarence Manuel of Pittsburgh.

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