The Auburn Police Division is investigating a possible homicide that occurred in Auburn on Saturday night.
The Lee County Coroner's Office received a call from the Auburn Police Division on Saturday at 7:20 p.m, the coroner's office said. The police began investigating a possible homicide of a 26-year-old at 420 North Dean Road in Auburn at about 5 p.m. when they arrived on the scene, police said.
Investigators found Herman Cornelius "Ce-Ce" Lane dead inside of his home at an apartment complex near the intersection of North Dean Road and Annalue Drive, police said Sunday. He appeared to have suffered a gunshot wound, the coroner said.
According to police, a family member could not reach Lane and went to his apartment, where they found him unresponsive from the gunshot wound.
Lane was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:45 p.m. He was last known to be alive at about 3 p.m. on Saturday.
The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences in Montgomery is performing a postmortem examination on Lane's body. The homicide investigation is being performed by the Lee County Coroner's Office, the Auburn Police Division and the Department of Forensic Sciences.
Anyone with any information on this case, or who may have seen something in this area, is urged to contact the Auburn Police at 334-501-3140 or the Auburn Police Department tip line at 334-246-1391 or the Lee County Coroner’s Office secret witness line at 334-745-8686.
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