D.C. police are investigating the death of a man found with gunshot wounds Thursday inside of a Northeast Washington home, officials said.

Police were called to investigate in the 600 block of Nicholson Street NE just after 5 p.m, when the victim was found unconscious and not breathing, said Officer Hugh Carew, a spokesman.

Homicide detectives were called to the scene and were to trying to determine where and how the man was wounded, police said.