A death investigation remains underway after a man suffering ‘blunt force injury’ to his head was found dead late last month at his apartment complex in Lake View, Chicago police said.

A janitor called 911 after spotting Nolan L. Hart, 32, and responding police officers initially thought was asleep when they tried to wake him as he sat on the floor near the stairwell of his apartment complex in the 500 block of West Addison Street the morning of Oct. 27, according to Chicago police reports obtained by the Sun-Times.

Officers then noticed he was pale and saw dried blood and trauma to his head, according to the report. A bloodied backpack lay nearby and Hart was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:20 a.m.

An autopsy the next day by the Cook County medical examiner’s office was inconclusive

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