Colorado Springs police investigating homicide on west side of town

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) is investigating an early morning shooting that left an unidentified man dead.

The CSPD responded to reports of shots fired at the Wind River Place apartments, near the intersection 19th and Uintah streets, at about 2:40 a.m. on Monday, August 21.

A sergeant at the scene said that when officers arrived, they found the victim in a hallway on the second floor of a three-story building, at the rear of the complex.

Caleb Slater, who lives on the lower floor on the building, said that he wonders if the homicide is connected to a disturbance that happened early Sunday morning in the apartment above him.

"I just heard a lot of commotion," he recalled. "It sounded like people were actually fighting upstairs. I wouldn't say there were a lot of things being thrown around. But there was a lot of heavy banging, sounded like bodies hitting the floor."

Slater said that he's unsure if he knows the victim.

"I borrowed someone's vacuum up there once," he said. "I didn't know that anybody in there was dead. I live downstairs underneath of them. Now, I can't get inside the building to my own apartment, where my daughter has her food and I kind of need to feed my child."

Police continue to investigate the situation, and are asking people to contact them if they have any information.

This is a developing story; check back for updates.