Police are investigating an unusual scene in Uptown after firefighters responding to a report of a natural gas smell found a man shot inside his apartment late Thursday.
Firefighters were dispatched around 10:45 p.m. to a building in the 4700 block of North Malden Street after a resident reported smelling gas in the building. When they entered a third-floor unit, they found a 34-year-old man unresponsive in his bedroom with a gunshot wound to the head.
According to an officer at the scene, there had been a small fire in the apartment, and the man was discovered wrapped in a sheet with a handgun nearby…