The 25-year-old man who was shot and killed at about 11:10 p.m. Monday on Rhoda Court in the Lane-Wooster neighborhood of Akron has been identified as Lamar Brown, according to the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Brown lived on Greenwood Avenue, not far from where he was killed.
The autopsy has been completed and the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the torso. The death has been ruled a homicide.
Police responded to a call about shots being fired and found a man lying on the sidewalk between apartments with an apparent gunshot wound. He was later pronounced dead at the scene.
His identity has not yet been released.
City police and the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office are investigating.