MOULTRIE, Ga. — Investigators hope than an autopsy scheduled for today will shed light on the circumstances of a Colquitt County man’s death after his battered body was found on Monday evening.

The man, thought to be 31 years old, was found in his residence at about 6:30 p.m. Monday. Police had not positively identified him as of Monday afternoon, said a spokesman with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which has been requested to assist the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office with the investigation.

Neighbors have said that the man and his roommate fought for much of the weekend, and a large number of beer cans were found at the men’s residence, Coroner Verlyn Brock said. The man suffered obvious trauma to the body, and the death is considered a possible homicide.

“We’re just trying to wait on some facts from that autopsy (to see) if it was some type of medical issue or if the altercation contributed to it,” Jamy Steinberg, special agent in charge of the GBI office in Thomasville, said of the man’s death.

Steinberg said that the sheriff’s office contacted the GBI shortly after 7 p.m. after it responded at about 6:33 p.m. to the 699 Sardis Church Road Lot 7 residence of the victim.

“He was in a 10 x 15 wood — almost like a storage shed — being used like a sleeping structure,” Steinberg said. “We got there, learned there had been an altercation with another Hispanic male during the weekend. We’re looking at that, whether it contributed to his death.”

The GBI believes it knows who was fighting with the victim and where he is located, Steinberg said, and also is seeking to talk with a third person about the fatality.

If the death is ruled to have been inflicted during the fight, it would be the third violent homicide in the county in 2016. It also would be the first to occur outside the city of Moultrie and the first in which a firearm was not involved.

Ryshaun Montay Bigelow, 23, died after being shot multiple times on Feb. 16 at the intersection of First Avenue and Seventh Street Southwest. As police investigated that slaying five shots rang out about a quarter-mile from that scene. Police found 25-year-old Darian Williams had been shot multiple times but survived.

His brother, Donterrius Williams, 23, was charged with murder in connection with Bigelow’s death.

On March 6 Fatisha Annette Clark, 33, was shot once in the abdomen while she and her children were enjoying a Sunday afternoon at the Ryce Community Center park at 307 Seventh St. S.W. She later died at Colquitt Regional Medical Center.

Jaquan Willis, who was 16 on that day, has been charged with murder. He is accused of firing the shot that struck Clark from a moving car after an altercation at the center that occurred after two groups had an earlier confrontation at another location.