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Police are investigating after a man was found dead in an apartment building Monday at Leeway Drive and Brown Station Road in north Columbia.

Columbia Police Department Officer Latisha Stroer said Tuesday that the police department does not know the mans age or name.

Officers at the scene said police first arrived at the building, 2940 Leeway Drive, at about 3 p.m. Monday and that the crime scene investigation unit was called in at about 8:30 p.m. Bright lights were visible from a room on the second floor of the building as authorities carried the mans covered body down the stairs and out the front door at about 10:20 p.m.

Stroer declined to comment about whether police are investigating the mans death as a homicide. She said police are waiting on autopsy results to determine the cause of death.

The Boone County Medical Examiners Office did not respond to a message Tuesday asking when an autopsy will be scheduled, and police gave no other details about the case.

Robert and Donna Gash, who live across the street from the apartment building where the man was found dead, said they were not aware anything was wrong until an officer told them Monday.

The husband and wife said they did not know the man but occasionally waved to him from across the road, as they do with all their neighbors. They noticed his light had been on all night for several days, but Donna Gash said that did not seem unusual to her.

He always has his light on, day and night, she said.

Robert Gash described the apartment resident as an older man with health issues. Last summer, Robert Gash noticed an ambulance at the mans home multiple times. Donna Gash said on Monday night a police officer told her the man had not been shot, and police were investigating his cause of death.

This story was first published online on Monday, January 30, 2017 at 10:13 p.m.

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