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Vancouver Police investigate the city’s 3rd homicide of the year

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 17 Mar, 2021 06:30 PM
  • Vancouver Police investigate the city’s 3rd homicide of the year

Police say a woman has been fatally shot in Vancouver.

A statement from Sgt. Steve Addison says police responded to a call at about 4 a.m. on Wednesday.

Addison says the woman was found in a social housing building in the Downtown Eastside and died later in hospital.

Police believe her attacker fled.

Addison says no arrests have been made and the woman has not been identified.

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