A woman was arrested Thursday evening for the murder of an octogenarian committed on October 22 in a residence for the elderly in the east of Montreal, learned The Press.
Posted at 2:32 p.m.
The suspect, Élise Quenneville-Proulx, 34, will be charged with the unpremeditated murder of Mme Rolande Ducharme, Friday afternoon, at the Montreal courthouse, according to the indictment filed at the registry.
According to our information, it was members of the victim’s family, worried about not having heard from him, who alerted the management of the RPA where M lived.me Ducharme, the NDF retirement community, located at the corner of rue de Pontoise and rue Beaubien est, in the Rosemont–Petite-Patrie district.
When the employees of the residence showed up in Ms.me Ducharme, they found her unconscious.
The Urgences Santé technicians then arrived at the scene and found him dead.
The cause of death was not established at the scene. The death was initially considered suspicious and the body was examined by a pathologist and a coroner. They then concluded that it was a murder and transferred the file to the SPVM Major Crimes investigators.
According to our information, the crime would have been committed at least 24 hours before the discovery of the body of Mrs.me Some charm.
The victim was reportedly killed with a sharp or blunt object.
The motive for the crime is unknown at this time.
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