TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Police in Tallahassee say a man thought to have been fatally shot on New Year’s Day might have died because of fireworks instead.
Officers responded to a reported shooting around 2:15 a.m. Monday in the 600 block of Osceola Street, locating the injured man in the road, according to a post on the Tallahassee Police Department’s social media.
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The man died at the scene, police said, and a homicide investigation began.
Several hours after the post was made, it was updated to say that the department’s Violent Crimes Unit had since determined “this is possibly an accidental death caused by fireworks.”
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A final word on the matter is pending a full autopsy to determine how the man died, the department said.
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