From the Richmond Times Dispatch

Police were called at about 7:15 a.m. to the 1400 block of Melton Avenue, near the southwestern tip of Oakwood Cemetery, for a report of a man down.

The first officers on scene found an unresponsive male at a one-story bungalow. The victim appeared to have been shot in the head, police said.

The house where the body was found had recently been purchased, and the new owner came to the house this morning to meet utility crews before finding the body on a porch behind some overgrown bushes, police said.

Police secured the area and called detectives and crime-scene technicians. Melton was closed to traffic from Oakwood Avenue to S Street.