Durham Regional Police say they’re investigating a homicide after a woman was found with “significant injuries” at a home in Oshawa overnight.
Police were called to a house on Eulalie Avenue, in the area of King Street East and Ritson Road South, on Sunday at around 12:30 a.m.
“Officers arrived on scene and located a 48-year-old female suffering from obvious signs of trauma,” Acting Staff-Sgt. Joanne Bortoluss told reporters outside the home Sunday morning.
First responders administered CPR and the woman was then rushed to a Toronto-area trauma centre, police said. However she was pronounced dead a short time later.
“Her husband, a 41-year-old male, is in police custody and is facing a charge of first-degree murder,” Bortoluss said.
She added that the couple’s two children – both five years old — as well as an elderly woman were home at the time of the incident. However none of them …