SAN ANTONIO -- Police are now investigating the death of a 77-year-old man, found dead inside his dilapidated Monte Vista home on Christmas Day, as a homicide, according to the San Antonio Police Department.
The victim was identified by the Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office as Wayne Bowden. Click here to see photos.
Detectives and officers on the scene found some signs that indicated it may not have been natural, SAPD Officer Roger Zuniga had said. However, police said it was too early to tell.
On Christmas day, a family member had driven to the 100 block of Queens Crescent, near Trinity Baptist Church, to do a welfare check on Bowden because he hadn't been answering his phone, police said.
Upon entering the home, the man saw Bowden's body 'laying in a dried pool of blood' and immediately called police, according to the police report.
Officers and paramedics arrived and determined that the man was deceased.
Further investigation led officers to believe the victim was killed between Dec. 12 and Dec. 25.
