York Regional Police say they’ve arrested a suspect in a murder investigation hours after an individual was discovered lifeless in a Richmond Hill residence on Saturday.
Police discovered the physique on Saturday morning and arrested the suspect on Saturday afternoon. Police stated the incident is focused.
In a information launch, police say they had been known as at about 8:25 a.m. by a member of the family to verify on the welfare of an individual in a house within the space of Gracedale Drive and Shaftsbury Avenue, close to Yonge Road and Elgin Mills Highway W.
When officers arrived, they discovered an grownup lifeless within the residence, police stated. There isn’t any phrase on reason behind loss of life.
Police stated the suspect, a 23-year-old Richmond Hill man, was arrested in Toronto at 3:07 p.m.
“There isn’t any menace to the general public. Police should not on the lookout for anybody else in relation to this incident,” police stated within the launch.
The sufferer’s title, age and {sex} haven’t been launched. Police stated they won’t title the sufferer till a autopsy examination has been accomplished and subsequent of kin have been notified.
York Regional Police automobiles are parked close to a house after an individual was discovered lifeless in Richmond Hill. Police say they’ve arrested a 23-year-old man in reference to the loss of life. (Prasanjeet Choudhury/CBC)
Earlier on Saturday, Const. Lisa Moskaluk, spokesperson for York Regional Police, stated in an interview that police consider that the sufferer was final spoken to by a member of the family at about 5 p.m. on Friday.
Moskaluk stated the suspect and sufferer knew one another however she declined to remark additional on their relationship.
“We do consider it is a focused incident,” she added. “This occurred inside a house and we do not consider that this was a random occasion.”
Moskaluk stated police consider the suspect had fled the house on foot.
Anybody with data, or video surveillance from the realm between Friday at 5 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m., is requested to return ahead to police.
