DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A 19-year-old man died after being shot Saturday morning in a Des Moines neighborhood just east of the state Capitol, police said.
Officers invested a report of gunshots about 8:30 a.m. in an area a few blocks from the Capitol and found a the man on the ground who had been shot. Officers began lifesaving efforts, and the man was taken to a hospital, where he died just after 9 a.m.
The man was identified later Saturday as Robert Lee Trey Freeman, of Des Moines. Police hadn’t reported any arrests as of Saturday night.
It’s the city’s 11th homicide of the year.
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