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Toronto police are investigating the death of a man found inside a Melville Avenue home on Saturday night. (Natalie Kalata/CBC)

Toronto police are probing a man's death after his body was found inside a Melville Avenue home on Saturday night.

Emergency responders were called to the scene, near Dupont and Christie streets, for a reported natural gas leak at about 9:45 p.m.

Homicide detectives are now investigating the man's death.

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