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By Will Greenlee of TCPalm

PORT ST. LUCIE — The death of a 48-year-old man found around midnight Tuesday with a gunshot wound to the head has been labeled a suicide, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

A motorist noticed the man slumped over in a wheelchair in a vacant lot about 12:05 a.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of Southeast Chapman Avenue, said Master Sgt. Frank Sabol, police spokesman. That person drove to the nearby police station to notify authorities.

Sabol said the man last was seen around 8 p.m. Tuesday. The man had a single gunshot wound to the head.

Police found a silver revolver at the scene, and Sabol said the incident is a suicide.