MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man was found dead in Southwest Memphis Sunday morning.

Police said officers responded to a man-down call in the 4200 block of Falcon Drive at 8 a.m. where the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

Memphis Police have not confirmed his identity at this time.

But family members identified the victim as retired Memphis Police homicide detective Mark LeSure.

“He was in the driveway when we got here lying face down,” said Rose LeSure-Jones, Mark’s aunt. “Whatever it was he didn’t deserve this, he really didn’t he was a good guy. one of the good guys really.”

LeSure served in the U.S. Army where he spent ten years as a military police officer and then joined Memphis Police Department in 1992.

He recently retired and went back to school to get his master’s degree. He also mentors young kids.

“He had outreach ministries to young people in the community, a few blocks away. Westwood community center and now they just lost a mentor,” said Randie Fleming, a neighbor and friend. “It’s one thing you hear gang members shooting and killing each other dying, but someone who is an upstanding guy, he served his community.”

MPD said this is an ongoing death investigation.

A year ago we talked with LeSure at a street renaming for his middle school football coach Shirley Yvonne McCray. He told us how she inspired him to be the change he wanted to see in his community.

“We are starting a non-profit for this neighborhood to try to get these kids engaged, get them away from gun violence, pick up a book,” LeSure said. ‘We fought with our pen and paper, we didn’t fight with fists and guns.”

WREG will update as more information becomes available.