Man found dead in apparent homicide

By ADAM SCHRECK

March 29, 2006 | 12:00 a.m. CST

Police are looking for the victim's 1994 or 1995 gold Cadillac STS in connection with the killing.

[Note: this story has been modified since its original posting.]

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Columbia police officer Matt Stephens talks to an area resident while police department's forensic unit checks the homicide scene on Cynthia Drive. ( KAREN STOCKMAN/Missourian)

A Columbia man was found dead in an apartment just off I-70 Drive in northwest Columbia early Wednesday morning.

Columbia Police are investigating the death of Carlos L. Kelly, 34, as a homicide.

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A member of the Columbia Police Department's forensic unit picks up a mold of a shoe print at the homicide scene on Cynthia Drive. (KAREN STOCKMAN/Missourian)

Capt. Brad Nelson said police are looking for Kelly’s 1994 or 1995 gold Cadillac STS in connection with the killing.

Kelly was discovered in his apartment in the 1300 block of Cynthia Drive after police responded to a 911 call at 4:07 a.m. The caller, who was not at the scene when police arrived and has not been identified, said he or she had been beaten and robbed at the apartment, according to a Columbia Police news release.

Police said the cause of death did not appear to be natural.

Kelly had pleaded guilty to several crimes between 1989 and 2004, including assault, drug possession and resisting arrest.

Kelly’s death would mark Columbia’s first homicide this year.

Missourian reporters Matt Harris and Mark Szakonyi contributed to this story.