The homicide squad has started a murder investigation and one person is currently in custody after first responders found an elderly woman dead at a home in Regent Park Wednesday.
Police went to a co-op building on Cornwall Street, near River Street, at around 4 p.m. for a medical call.
Officers arrived and found the woman with obvious signs of trauma. The coroner was called in and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said one person was taken into custody and they were initially treating the woman’s death as “suspicious.”
Police later said that the death has been ruled a homicide, the city’s 70th homicide of the year.
Neighbours who spoke with CP24 at the scene said the building is generally quiet and there are many elderly residents.
“It upsets me,” said one man who knew the victim. “I knew the lady. We were sort of friends and we talked a lot. Just a nice older lady.”
No charges have been announced so far.
