London Police Service (LPS) forensics officers are targeted on a wooded space, after a person’s physique was discovered behind Mildred Barons Park in east London, Ont.
“Members of the London Police Service Main Crime Part are investigating a suspicious demise that occurred within the metropolis’s east finish,” mentioned Insp. Sean Sussex of the LPS.
First responders had been known as to Kathleen Avenue at 6 p.m. Friday for a “check welfare investigation” and situated a deceased man within the park on the finish of the dead-end avenue off Dundas Road.
LPS mentioned Main Crimes is working with the Chief Coroner’s Workplace to find out what occurred.
spoke with a neighbour who lives on Kathleen Avenue, who wished to not be recognized. He mentioned a homeless encampment moved into the woods about three months in the past.
A London Police Service Forensics investigator searches a wooded space behind Mildred Barons Park on Kathleen Avenue in London, Ont. the place a person’s physique was discovered on Sept. 20, 2024. Police are calling it a “suspicious death”. (Supply: Brent Lale/CTV London)
“The last few years, kids would come down here to play baseball and it was a nice dead-end street” mentioned the resident.
“Now that the encampment moved down here, everybody was afraid to come down here because they don’t know if their dog would pick up drugs or what they’re going to get into.”
The neighbour added what began as a pair residing in a tent behind the park, has grown to an encampment of 10 to 12 folks.
He mentioned they wander up and down his avenue in any respect hours.
“I stopped walking her (his dog) about three months ago because it started getting way too high traffic and a lot of sketchy people coming in and out of the neighbourhood.”
London Police are investigating a suspicious demise at a homeless encampment behind Mildred Barons Park on Kathleen Avenue in London, Ont. on Sept. 21, 2024. (Supply: Brent Lale/ London)
Police have blocked off a small space on the north finish of the park subsequent to the practice tracks and have put their drone within the air as a part of the investigation.
“Major Crimes is continuing with the investigation,” mentioned Sussex.
“They’re asking that anyone with information please come forward and contact the London Police Service.”
