Waterloo Regional Police have announced that they are now treating the death of an 88-year-old woman in Wilmot as a homicide.
On Monday, police reported that emergency services had been dispatched to a home on Sandhills Road in the Baden area for a medical call on Saturday afternoon.
“Upon arrival, our officers did locate a female who was unfortunately deceased,” police spokesperson Cherri Greeno said.
“Information gathered at that time led officers to conduct a suspicious death investigation.”
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On Monday they announced that information gathered as part of an investigation being run alongside the coroner’s office had led to the homicide declaration.
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Greeno could not say what led to the homicide declaration.
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“That’s all part of the investigation,” she said.
“Details related to that I obviously can’t disclose at this time, but I can say that information and evidence gathered throughout the investigation led our officers, along with the chief coroner, to determine that this is now a homicide investigation.”
Police did not release details of the cause of the woman’s death.
This is the fourth homicide of the year in Waterloo Region.
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