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CANTON, Ohio (WJW) -- Firefighters called to a homeless encampment that caught fire last week found a 48-year-old man who had been fatally shot in the head.

A 44-year-old Canton man is now charged with his murder.

The fire was reported Sept. 10 at a homeless encampment set up behind a business along Navarre Road Southwest, near the Wernet Court Southwest intersection, according to a Canton police report.

Firefighters reportedly found a man unresponsive at the scene of the fire, with brass knuckles in his hand.

Doctors treating the man told officers a bullet had been found lodged in his brain, and that he likely would not survive.

Officers identified the victim as John M. Lee, 48, of Canton, using criminal records, after investigatin

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