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Calgary police looking for person of interest after man found dead in downtown apartment

Calgary police are looking for a person of interest in connection with the death of a man whose body was found in a downtownapartment earlier this month.

Police want to speak with Steven Joseph Reader in connection with Michael Lloyd homicide

Mug shot of a man.
Steven Joseph Reader has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Michael Donald Lloyd earlier this year. (Calgary Police Service)

Calgary police are looking for a person of interest in connection with the death of a man whose body was found in a downtownapartment earlier this month.

Michael Donald Lloyd, 42, was found dead inside the suite, and investigators have said he had been killedseveral days earlier.

The Calgary Police Serviceis now asking the public to help find Steven Joseph Reader, 27, who is considered a person of interest in the homicide investigation.

Reader is also wanted on a warrant for breach of probation.

Visible tattoos

Reader is described as six feet tall withblondhair and asmall cross tattoo under his right eye. He has another tattoo across his knuckles that reads "PUFFRYDA."

Investigators believe he may bein or around the Red Deer area.

On Aug. 9, Police and EMS discovered Lloyd's body after being calledto do a welfare check at an apartment in the 200 block of Sixth Avenue S.E.

Although police wouldn't say how Lloyd was killed, an autopsy confirmed it was a homicide.

Anyone who may have any information about the homicide or Reader's whereabouts is asked to call the police non-emergency number at 403-266-1234.

Tips can also be submitted anonymously to Crime Stoppers.