Suspicious death in Minneapolis ruled a homicide
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The Hennepin County Medical Examiner said Saturday that the death of a man found early Friday near the scene of a fire in Minneapolis was a homicide.
The man was identified as 52-year-old Wayne Jacob Arvidson of Minneapolis. An autopsy determined Arvidson died of "complex homicidal violence."
His body was found by firefighters responding to a fire in a building on the 1800 block of Central Avenue Northeast.
"Fire crews arrived and extinguished a small fire inside a building. Firefighters located the body of a deceased individual ... in close proximity," police said in a news release.
The case remains under investigation.
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