Officials confirmed today that the 73-year-old man whose body was found in a trash bin in east Denver on Wednesday died of a gunshot wound.
The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner determined that, Gerald Schwartzman of Denver died of a gunshot wound to the head, he was found dead at the scene, according to a news release.
At 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday police received reports of a body in a large trash bin in an alley between Grape Street and Hudson Street near East 13th Avenue.
Schwartzman’s ex-wife said yesterday that he had been living in Denver since 2001. She said Schwartzman was renting a house with his nephew in the 600 block of Clermont Street, just eight blocks from where his body was discovered.
Police originally called the case a “suspicious death,” but they are now investigating it as a homicide.
