POCATELLO — Police have ruled that a Pocatello man’s death near Idaho State University earlier this month was a suicide.

The 26-year-old man who lived in an apartment complex near ISU died of a single gunshot wound on Dec. 11, Pocatello police told the Idaho State Journal.

Police said the man's body was found by neighboring residents around 2:45 p.m. at the bottom of the east stairway at the College Apartments in the 1200 block of South Fourth Avenue. 

Police located a rifle inside the man's apartment at the College Apartments and confirmed to the Journal this week that the gun was the weapon used in the suicide.

Police said they needed to fully investigate the incident before concluding the man's death wasn't suspicious.