Man's Death Ruled Natural, But Funeral Home Discovers a Gunshot Wound

The body of Leslie Brooks was found in the basement of a home he shared in Detroit. Police and EMS showed up, but it was clear Brooks was dead, and they said it was clear he had died of natural causes.

But, as Jim Schaefer writes in the Free Press, when his body arrived at a funeral home, the mortician saw it differently.

 Mortician Gail Washington saw  a small burned area on his skin, right above his heart. Her assistants had pointed it out, and Washington now agreed: This was no natural death.

Brooks had a small-caliber gunshot wound in his chest. And now Detroit police are scrambling to figure out what happened.

And they are trying to recreate a crime scene that no one had preserved as a crime scene.