Woman’s Jarvis Avenue death ‘suspicious’

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Winnipeg police are treating the death of a woman whose body was found in an apartment block on Jarvis Avenue as suspicious.

Police were sent to an apartment block at 189 Jarvis Ave., responding to reports of a dead woman, shortly before 7 a.m. Monday. The woman was transported to hospital, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release Monday.

Police have not yet revealed the woman’s age, name or manner of death. The WPS said her death is considered suspicious and that the homicide unit is handling the investigation.

The building sits on the corner of Jarvis and Main Street, just a few blocks north of the underpass on Higgins Avenue. Yellow police tape cordoned off much of the area late Monday morning.

Members of the WPS forensic unit investigated inside the building while plainclothes investigators scoured nearby back lanes.

“This is how it is. This is normal s—t out here,” a man at a neighbouring business, who asked not to be identified, said.

Crime scenes appear regularly in that area of the city, he said.

“It’s pretty crazy… we don’t even put cameras up outside because (police) will want the camera footage and everything like that. We don’t got time like that. We’ve got time to run our businesses around here — that’s about it.”

Staff at a separate business attached to the Jarvis apartment said officers asked for security footage, but they do not have cameras.

Earlier in the morning, police responded to an assault at a Main Street parking lot less than half a block south of the apartment block.

tyler.searle@freepress.mb.ca