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Shooting, Apparently Accidental, Takes Broward Teen's Life

FORT LAUDERDALE (CBS4) -- An 18-year-old was rushed to North Broward Medical Center Saturday evening with a gunshot wound to his head.

The shooting happened in a house in the 6500 block of Northeast 21st Road at about 6 p.m., according to a Fort Lauderdale Police Spokesman Travis Mandell.

The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the hospital and the details on how and why the shooting happened were still under investigation Sunday night.

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