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Update: Cleveland Police no longer looking for witness to fatal shooting of 16-year-old boy

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CLEVELAND — Cleveland Police have located a man they were looking for who may have been a witness to the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy in Cleveland on July 27.

At about 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 27, Cleveland Police officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 3100 block of Scranton Avenue. Officers arrived on scene and found 16-year-old Arthur McKeller, who had suffered multiple gunshot wounds.

EMS arrived and transported McKeller to a nearby hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

A preliminary investigation from the Homicide Unit revealed that McKeller and a friend were sitting at the address on Scranton Avenue when an unknown person approached them and started shooting at them, police said. McKeller and his friend fled the area, and McKeller collapsed near the 1700 block of Clark Avenue.

A person of interest has not been identified.

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