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Man shot dead on return visit to Camden

A man who moved recently from Camden to West Virginia was shot and killed over the weekend after returning to Camden for a visit, police said.

A man who moved recently from Camden to West Virginia was shot and killed over the weekend after returning to Camden for a visit, police said.

Officers responding to a report of a person shot about 10 p.m. Saturday found Raheem L. Gilbert, 27, with multiple gunshot wounds on a porch on the 400 block of Viola Street in the Waterfront South section of the city.

Gilbert was taken to Cooper University Hospital, where he died at 11:39 p.m., police said.

Detectives were working to establish a motive.

Police said Gilbert had recently relocated to Camden but did not say why or how long ago he made the move.