A 25-year-old man was shot to death on New Year’s Eve in a vehicle on 17th Street NW just west of Market Avenue, the Stark County Coroner’s office said.
Harry Campbell, the chief coroner’s investigator, Saturday morning identified the man as Riquan L. Jennings.
Campbell referred other questions about the circumstances to Canton police.
The investigator said someone called for police at 5:39 p.m. Friday. The vehicle was by 121 17th Street NW, an apartment building that’s part of the Case Mansion Flats complex on the northwest corner of Market Avenue N and 17th Street NW.
Campbell said shortly after he arrived at the scene he pronounced the man dead at 8:51 p.m.
Around 9:30 p.m., the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation was assisting Canton Police in documenting everything at the scene and collecting evidence.
Campbell said Saturday morning that Jenning’s body had arrived at the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s office in Cleveland for an autopsy.
A Canton Police supervisor said shortly before 9 p.m. that he could not release any information on the case as detectives and crime scene specialists were at 17th Street still trying to establish what happened. Another police supervisor Saturday morning said he had no new information to provide.
An attempt to reach Canton Police Chief Jack Angelo Saturday morning was unsuccessful.
Campbell said he notified the man’s parents.
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