Quebec provincial police questioned on Wednesday a person of interest — a man in his 30s — following the death of a 27-year-old woman southwest of Montreal.
The woman who died was Josianne Faucher, a source told CTV News. She was found in a home on Toulouse Street in the suburb of Candiac on Tuesday just before noon.
A woman who identified herself as Faucher’s mother wrote in a Facebook post that her daughter had died. “She was our little girl, she didn’t deserve to leave us so young,” Pierrette Chalifoux Faucher wrote on social media.
The police theory is that she was possibly killed after investigators found marks of violence on her body, however, an autopsy will need to be done to determine the cause of death. No charges have been laid.
Municipal police were first alerted to the home by someone concerned about the woman’s wellbeing.
The Sûreté du Québec’s violent crimes unit is leading the investigation, which is ongoing.
With files from The Canadian Press