Homicide cops probe Freeport man's death
Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a Freeport man found Monday with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police said.
Alberto Tiburcio, 25, was pronounced dead at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside at 4:34 a.m. Monday, Nassau police said, after a shooting in the vicinity of Smith Street in Freeport shortly before midnight.
Officers responded to a report of gunshots at Smith Street at 11:54 p.m. on Sunday, police said, but Tiburcio, had already been taken to the hospital, about 3 miles away, by someone unknown to investigators.
No other details were released.
Investigators asked that anyone with information concerning the case call Crime Stoppers at 800-244-TIPS.
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