COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Update:

A man found dead inside a car could be the city's latest murder victim.

The man was found in a car parked outside the Rustic Hills Apartments near Galley and Potter.

Police said the man suffered from head trauma and was pronounced dead at the hospital. They said a security guard was making his routine rounds at the apartments when he made the gruesome discovery. The guard called 911 and said he'd found a dead body.

When rescue crews got to the scene they thought there was still some hope the man in his 30s could be saved, but the victim was pronounced dead at Memorial.

“I kinda tripped out on it," resident Ron Miller said. "I was like 'wow in our complex' of all places."

Police said the victim suffered head trauma, and crime scene investigators took a lot of pictures of the car before it was towed away.

Miller is the father of an 8-year-old girl and doesn't like the violent trend at the complex.

“I wish it would stop happening because I'm concerned for her mainly,” Miller said.

He said he's lived at the Rustic Hills apartments for 15 years and has watched them go downhill.

“It has been slowly progressing worse just getting worse, at one point my aunt, she got a bullet through her wall,” Miller said.

Police said they are talking to everyone who lives here as they try and figure out how the man died.

Miller, meanwhile, said he's planning to leave.

“Move out of here, get a house, get in a good neighborhood or something,” Miller said.

Police said they wont have any new information on the investigation until the coroner finishes the autopsy.
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Original story:

Colorado Springs police are investigating a suspicious death at the Rustic Hills Apartments in the 1200 block of Potter Drive near Galley and N. Academy.

Police said a security guard called them just after 1 a.m. Tuesday morning saying he saw a man not breathing in a car with an apparent head injury.

The man, who police believe is in his 30s, was taken to Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He has not been positively identified.

Because of the head injury police are investigating the death as suspicious. If the coroner rules this a homicide, it will be the 23rd in Colorado Springs this year.

The crime scene is near Mitchell High School, however police believe there is no threat to the school.

Investigators have impounded the vehicle for evidence and are attempting to locate witnesses.

Anyone with information should call police at 444-7000.

Information provided by the Colorado Springs Police Department