(Update 1:45 p.m.) – A man’s body found Friday morning has been sent to autopsy and detectives are still investigating.

Capt. Jeff Wilson with the St. Joseph Police Department said the man was a 52-year-old area resident.  He said the circumstances surrounding the death are being investigated by the Detective Division.    Officers responded early Friday morning after a body was found on the sidewalk outside of the Frederick Towers apartment building at 24th and Frederick.  Wilson said an autopsy will be preformed.  Little other information has been released.

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(7:45 a.m.) – A body was found early Friday on the sidewalk outside the Frederick Towers apartment building at 24th and Frederick. Until they can determine otherwise, police will investigate the case as a homicide.

“We received a call of a gentleman down on sidewalk who appeared to be unresponsive,” St. Joseph Police Sergeant Brett Kelley said. “We arrived, and medics arrived, and found a gentleman who was down, and deceased.”

Kelley said investigators do not yet know what happened to the man.

“He appears to have some injuries,” Kelley said. “We’re not sure how they occured at this time.”

“Any scene like this, we always start out treating them like a homicide scene, and then we can downgrade them from there. That’s why we have the CSI’s out here, and the other detectives here doing their investigation.”