The cause of death for a 39-year-old Scranton man \u2014 who died Friday from a single gunshot wound to the abdomen \u2014 was ruled a homicide, Lackawanna County Coroner Tim Rowland said Monday.<\/p>\n
Following the shooting, which Scranton Police Chief Thomas Carroll said occurred at 313 N. Hyde Park Ave. in the city, emergency medical personnel transported Clinton Thornton-Hill to the emergency department at Geisinger Community Medical Center after he was found unconscious.<\/p>\n
Thornton-Hill died around 8:30 p.m. Friday, Rowland said.<\/p>\n
Scranton police and the Lackawanna County district attorney\u2019s office are investigating the case. No further information has been made available yet.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding the incident is urged to contact the Scranton Police Department at 570-348-4141.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cause of death for a 39-year-old Scranton man \u2014 who died Friday from a single gunshot wound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-247831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}