Suspicious death was targeted: police

A neighbour heard a gunshot and then a car racing off before a man's body was found inside a northwest Calgary home.

Police said they responded to a 911 hangup call at about 1:30 a.m. and traced it to a home on Edgeridge Green N.W. where they found the body of a middle-aged man.

Until an autopsy is completed, police consider the death suspicious. However, Acting Insp. Darren Cave called it a "targeted" incident, because it appears someone walked up to the front door of the home and attacked the person who answered, he said.

The homicide unit is investigating.

"I heard something that sounded like a gunshot and then a car speeding [away] really fast," said Hend Hammouda, who has lived near the Edgemont home for seven years.

Wan Pheung, who lives across the street from the house, said a couple, their two daughters and a teenaged son have lived in the home for about six years.

Pheung told CBC News she saw the mother and her two daughters getting in a police car early Monday morning.

"I find it a very quiet neighbourhood. There's not too much activity going on around here, so it was quite surprising this morning," said neighbour Josephine Frangou, who has lived in the area for 10 years.

Cave added: "For the citizens of Calgary obviously this is a concern. It is a quiet neighbourhood but as we all know there's no area in this city or any other that's immune to such activity."

Police have not revealed whether or not weapons were involved in the man's death.