CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A 27-year-old man was shot to death Thursday after refusing to fight a man while he played basketball with his nephews at a park in the city's Corlett neighborhood, police said.

Aramis Roey, 27, was shot three times in the head and back about 7:20 p.m. at Gawron Park on East 136th Street and Harvard Avenue, police said.

Roey was playing basketball with his two young nephews at the park when an argument broke out between two people, police said.

Roey intervened and a man who started the argument tried to get Roey to fight him, police said. Roey refused and walked away, according to police.

Roey returned pick up some of the gear he left near the basketball court, when the man pulled out a handgun and shot him twice, police said. Roey fell to the ground and the man walked over to him and shot him a third time, police said.

Four juveniles-- whose ages are unknown-- ran from the park as the shots were fired, according to police reports. The shooter also ran and has not been arrested, police said.

Roey was pronounced dead at the park, police said.

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