EDMONTON - A Garneau-area woman says her next-door neighbour came to her house Sunday morning, bleeding, barely able to speak, and pleading for help.
“Her face was just horrible, there was cuts and bruises all over her face,” Kimmie Fournier said Monday.
“She couldn’t open her mouth and talk, so I figured she might have had a broken jaw.”
Kimmie Fournier says her neighbour used her phone to call a taxi rather than an ambulance.
The 51-year-old woman died later in hospital. Police are treating her death is suspicious.
A 23-year-old man injured in the same house remains in hospital. A 28-year-old man is in custody. Police say charges are pending.
The identity of the dead woman hasn’t been released. An autopsy is planned for Monday afternoon.
The small beige bungalow near 108th Street and 85th Avenue remained cordoned off with yellow police tape Monday morning, with forensic officers inside. The windows were blocked with sheets of fabric.
Police are saying little about the incident, except the woman and man both suffered serious injuries during an altercation at the home Friday and Saturday.
Fournier said the woman had lived in the house for about a month.
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