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Man with chest wound found dead in Kensington house

Police are investigating the death of 21-year-old man found in his Kensington home with a puncture wound in his chest.

Philadelphia Crime Scene forensics investigators enter the house on Collins Street where a man was found dead Wednesday morning.

Philadelphia police investigate an alleged homicide along the 2600 block of Collins St. in Kensington section of Philadelphia on Wednesday morning June 2, 2010. ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
Philadelphia Crime Scene forensics investigators enter the house on Collins Street where a man was found dead Wednesday morning. Philadelphia police investigate an alleged homicide along the 2600 block of Collins St. in Kensington section of Philadelphia on Wednesday morning June 2, 2010. ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWSRead moreALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer

Police are investigating the death of 21-year-old man found in his Kensington home with a puncture wound in his chest.

Firefighters first responded to a medical call for someone who had stopped breathing at the house on the 2600 block about 7:45 a.m., officials said.

But after the man was pronounced dead at 8 a.m., a police crime scene unit was called to the address.

Police said that while the man had a puncture would to the chest, investigators are awaiting the results of an autopsy to establish the cause of death.