Repository staff report
CANTON – A running toilet led an apartment building manager to find one of her tenants dead and covered in blood, Tuesday. I think the guy s dead, she can be heard on a 911 recording released by Canton police on Thursday. There s blood all over him. He s not moving. He s cold as ice.
Police were called at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday to the apartment building in the 600 block of Cleveland Avenue SW where Jeffrey A. Loftus, 60, was found dead in his apartment.
Friday afternoon, Canton Police Captain Dave Davis said they were investigating the incident as a homicide. We do believe that Mr. Loftus was struck with a blunt object on the head, Davis added.