CALGARY - Looking every bit like soldiers, nearly two dozen police fanned out door-knocking and looking for evidence in what appears to be the city's latest killing.

About 1:30 a.m. yesterday, police were dispatched to a domestic call in the 200 block of Ventura Terrace N.E.

As a patrol unit made its way there, they spotted a man on the ground, just in the entrance way to a condo development.

A woman made the domestic-related 911 call but no other details were available on whether she might know the dead man -- and if so, how, police said.

"They were on their way to a domestic call and there was a guy who turned out to be laying in the driveway," Insp. Keith Pollock said.

The man, said to be in his late 20s or early 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene yesterday.

An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday while homicide detectives begin their search for answers.

At nightfall, more than a dozen police officers began the search for any clues, trying to find anyone who knew the man or might have information on how he ended up apparently dying all alone on a cold winter street.

Police continued to keep an eye on a house in the complex, which had a pile of clothes laying on the front steps.

Neighbours of the house, which police cordoned off with yellow tape yesterday, said the residents of the home have only lived there for about a month.

Ray Hudon, who lives across from the house, said a man, woman and child live in the home.

"I didn't know them other to say good morning," he said.

"It was a little disconcerting obviously," he said, about learning a possible homicide took place so close to his home.

He said he didn't hear anything out of the ordinary yesterday morning and has never noticed any domestic disputes there before.

"They looked like a nice couple," he said.

Alfredo Calpito said he, too, often said hello to the couple and an older woman seen at the home sometimes, and just saw them two days ago.

He also never suspected any domestic issues between them.

"I've never seen them fighting," he said.

NADIA.MOHARIB@SUNMEDIA.CA