Man Fatally Punched in Head Outside Brooklyn Drug Treatment Center: NYPD

Police say a man died after being punched in the head outside a drug treatment center in Brooklyn Friday. 

The victim, 49-year-old Frankie Santiago of Brooklyn, was involved in an argument outside St. Martin de Porres treatment center at 480 Alabama Ave. at around 9:30 a.m., police said. 

He was punched in the head several times, and responding police officers found him with severe head trauma. 

He was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police say.

No arrest has been made. 

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