Baldwin City police officers Chad Rine, left, and Daniel Flick guard the crime scene where a 43-year-old Baldwin City resident died from gunshot wounds. Police responded to a call at 3:01 a.m. Saturday to the residence at 222 1/2 Baker Street and found the body of James D. Brown. Brown was pronounced dead at the scene. Baldwin City police continue to investigate the shooting.

Baldwin City police officers Chad Rine, left, and Daniel Flick guard the crime scene where police found the body of James D. Brown after responding to an early-morning call.

A 43-year-old Baldwin City man was shot and killed early Saturday morning at a residence in Baldwin City.

According to Baldwin City Police Chief Mike McKenna, officers were called at 3:01 a.m. to a mobile home at 221 1/2 Baker St.

The body of James D. Brown was found in the residence. He had suffered a gunshot wound from a “high-powered firearm,” and he was pronounced dead at the scene, McKenna said.

A 46-year-old woman, reportedly Brown’s girlfriend, and a 34-year-old man also were in the residence at the time of the shooting. Neither was injured, McKenna said.

Police have responded to the mobile home before, for domestic calls, the chief said. Last week, Brown was arrested for domestic violence.

“It’s going to be domestic violence or suicide,” McKenna said. “They were partying all night. It’s too early to say, but if it’s suicide it stemmed from domestic violence.”

McKenna said his department is waiting on autopsy results. Based on interviews with the woman and the angle of the bullet, police are “leaning more towards suicide,” he said.

“We’ll see what the coroner says,” he said.

Several neighbors in the northeast Baldwin City mobile home park said they did not hear a gunshot or any commotion.

One of those neighbors is Roberta Hellstrom, 76, who lives in a mobile home behind 221 1/2 Baker St. She said she never met Brown or his girlfriend, who had moved in less than a year ago.

Hellstrom has lived in her trailer for nine years and has always felt safe, she said: “I think this is a one-time thing.”