Gold Coast detectives investigate man’s death after he was found found dead inside a unit
Shock after man is found dead in a unit as forensic police flood the scene
- A man, 61, has been found dead in a Gold Coast unit
- Detectives are investigating in the apartment building
Police investigators stormed an apartment building after a man was found dead in a unit.
Gold Coast Police responded to reports that a man had died at a building on Barney Street in the Queensland suburb of Southport at 7:30am on Friday.
The 61-year-old man was found on the fifth floor of the apartment complex during a welfare check by the management.
Police have begun investigating, with detectives knocking throughout the apartment building preparing to look through CCTV footage.
There is also a forensic team at the crime scene.
A man’s body has been discovered in a block of flats on Barney Street (pictured) in Southport, a Gold Coast suburb.
Gold Coast Senior Sergeant Brett Macgibbons said forensics would be “a big key to establishing the possible cause of death.”
Police have not determined whether the man’s death was suspicious.
The Queensland Ambulance Service was also on the scene.
A landscaper who worked near the apartment building this morning recalled seeing several police cars and an ambulance crowd pull into the street.
Gold Coast police were called to the apartment block and have begun inquiries (stock image)
“First a police car came, then another, then another,” he said The Gold Coast Bulletin.
“The ambulance came next, but they didn’t have their siren on, so I don’t know what that means.
“Then forensics—or what I think was forensics—showed up.”
A Queensland Police spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia that police were still investigating and that “no further information was available at this stage.”