Police are investigating the case as a violent homicide.
the burned body found Sunday in the city’s Fairmount Park sustained a gunshot wound to the neck, according to details of the forensic exam.
The body was that of a male, but there was no immediate word on the man’s identity, race of age, 6ABC reports. The cause of death being a gunshot to the neck has Philadelphia police investigating the case as a violent homicide.
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