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Billings shooting victim identified

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BILLINGS - The victim of a fatal shooting outside a Billings church was identified Thursday.

Yellowstone County Coroner Cliff Mahoney identified the man as 30-year-old Manuel J. Martinez. He died of multiple gunshot wounds, Mahoney said.

A suspect in the shooting that happened Monday evening remains at large.

Billings police previously said the fatal shooting happened at about 9 p.m. outside the Evangelical United Methodist Church near the corner of Broadwater Avenue and Fourth Street West.

The shooting was reported after a motorists told police he drove over the body as it was lying in the road.

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