By Associated Press - Monday, January 9, 2017

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - Wilmington Police have identified a man who was found slain in a car.

The department said in a news release Monday that 32-year-old Dariberto Velazquez Mendez of Philadelphia died of a gunshot wound to his head.

Officers were called to Porter Street Sunday morning for a report of an unresponsive man inside a car. Mendez was pronounced dead at the scene.



His death was ruled a homicide.

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