Authorities are investigating after a man was found shot to death inside a vehicle in a wooded area of Wakefield, Massachusetts.
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Wakefield Police Chief Richard Smith said in a joint statement that the death appears to be a homicide.
The victim has been identified as Jeffrey Raphael, 30, of Lynn.
Police received a 911 call at about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday from a passer-by who spotted the victim in a wooded area near a residential neighborhood off Sunset Street.
Responding officers found the man dead of apparent gunshot wounds.
Ryan said the shooting "does not appear to be a random act of violence."
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