A 23-year-old MSU student was found dead by his father in his East Lansing apartment early Sunday morning.

Police are calling the death "suspicious" and are conducting a homicide investigation. The student, who hasn't been identified by police, resided in Woodside Apartments in East Lansing.

After not hearing from his son for several days, the student's father said he went to check on him at his apartment on the corner of Haslett Road and Woodside Avenue, police said.

Neighbors last reported seeing the student alive at 11 p.m. Saturday. There are no suspects, but police are hoping witnesses will come forward.

East Lansing police officers called the Michigan State Police Department for assistance Sunday morning.

"It indicated a homicide - a murder scene," said Michigan State police Lt. Jerry Conners, adding police haven't determined the death to be a homicide.

Communication junior Jennifer Speer regularly visits her boyfriend, who lives at the complex, and was shocked Sunday when she heard why officers were there.

"You don't expect to come home on Easter Sunday and have somebody tell you someone suspiciously died in the apartment next to you," she said. "I hope they get to the bottom of it."

The last murder in East Lansing took place on Dec. 15, 1999, when 21-year-old Shemika Rogers was killed outside her East Lansing apartment at Homestead Apartments on Lake Lansing Road.

And Sunday's incident isn't the first suspicious one to involve MSU students this semester.

Last month, two shootings took place in East Lansing on the same day. In one case, a 21-year-old male nonstudent was shot in the chest at Woodbrook Village Apartments on Coolidge Road. In the other, a man was shot on the 1700 block of Haslett Road in an attempted robbery.

Earlier this semester, three MSU students were assaulted at gunpoint in their Lansing apartment.

Anyone with information is asked to call the East Lansing Police Department Tip Line at 877-357-3847 or the detective bureau at 319-6942.