Fort Drum soldier ID’d as victim of July Fourth shooting

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Fort Drum soldier ID’d as victim of July Fourth shooting
By The Associated Press
Jul 7, 09:54 AM
The U.S. Army has identified the victim of a deadly weekend shooting in Syracuse, New York. (Army)

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. Army has identified the victim of a deadly weekend shooting in Syracuse as a 19-year-old soldier from Georgia who was assigned to New York’s Fort Drum.

Pvt. 1st Class Malik S. Shipman, of Fairburn, Georgia, was shot near Onondaga Park in Syracuse shortly before midnight on July Fourth and died at a hospital, a police spokesperson told the Syracuse Post-Standard.

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