Des Moines police called to suicide, decide case is homicide

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Des Moines, Ia (AP) — Des Moines police are investigating the death of a man on the city’s south side as a homicide. Police were called about 5:40 p.m. Monday to a home to investigate a report of a suicide. The officers who arrived found the body of an adult man but police say the death didn’t appear to be a suicide. Detectives were investigating the death as a homicide. Police say it’s the 12th homicide in Des Moines this year.