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Port St. Lucie police determined suspicious death was a suicide

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Posted at 9:46 AM, Jul 03, 2019
and last updated 2019-07-03 13:10:53-04

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — The Port St. Lucie Police Department said Wednesday morning it's investigating a suspicious death after a man was found dead in a wooded lot.

Around 7:20 a.m., police went to the 200 block of SW Becker Rd. for reports of a dead person.

Officers arrived and found the body of an unidentified man lying on the ground by the wooded lot, a few feet from the canal.

Police later said they spoke with the mother of the deceased and said that detectives confirmed the man died by suicide from a gunshot wound.

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