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OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, Fla. — The Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office is investigating an apparent homicide after a man was found dead inside his vehicle early Sunday morning.

Deputies responded to a trailer park near Bill's Mini-Mart at around 3 a.m. Sunday after receiving reports of an unresponsive man inside a car. When they arrived, they found 40-year-old Santos Gaucin of Okeechobe dead inside his car.

A resident of the trailer park told deputies they discovered Gaucin unresponsive and bleeding after he crashed his vehicle.

Evidence around and inside the car indicates that Gaucin suffered a gunshot would and the incident is being investigated as a ho

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