East Saar Street between Central Avenue South<\/a> and Railroad Avenue South near downtown.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nA 911 call at about 10:16 a.m. Thursday reported an unconscious man in a car near the 300 block of Central Avenue South said Kent Police spokesman Jarod Kasner. Witnesses started to perform CPR on the man in the street. Officers and paramedics arrived a short time later and continued CPR before the man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Officers then saw that the man had a single gunshot wound in the upper body, Kasner said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“We are canvassing the neighborhood and looking for other evidence that could help us discern what took place here,” Kasner said early in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kasner said he didn’t have an age for the man.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Police said in a 4:15 p.m. Thursday media release that they are not releasing the identity of the victim and no suspects have been identified in what they called a suspicious death.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“We don’t know a lot,” Kasner said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The King County Medical Examiner’s Office will release the name of the victim, possibly as soon as Friday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Detectives looked at a blue car, reportedly driven by the man, parked crooked westbound in the middle of the street right next to the man’s body.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
East Saar Street runs just a short distance between Central Avenue and Railroad Avenue. The nearby businesses include South Central Food Mart and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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