Homicide detectives in Edmonton are investigating after a woman’s body was found tied up in a shopping cart earlier this week.
Authorities were called to an alley in the city’s Inglewood neighbourhood, just west of the downtown, just after 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
Police have confirmed that a woman was found dead at the scene, and that homicide detectives have taken over the case.
“She was bound and placed in the shopping cart … that’s what the officers found when they arrived at the scene,” police spokesperson Patrycia Thenu told CTV Edmonton.
A group of young people who were hanging out in a nearby backyard made the grisly discovery.
They told CTV Edmonton that a man was seen pushing a shopping cart down the alley just after 1 a.m. He left the shopping cart and walked away.
At first, they paid no attention to the sound of the shopping cart on the road.
“Two street people just came to us and said there’s a dead body in a shopping cart back there, tied up with tape around her wrists, her legs and her mouth and she was all bloody,” Orlando McGilvery told CTV Edmonton.
Alysia McGilvery said she approached the cart.
“I went up there, I said ‘Hello, are you OK?’ to see if she would respond,” Alysia McGilvery said. “And I went up there and (saw) her face was blue and I just started screaming.”
Wyatt Swan said the woman appeared to have a head injury.
“There was no life in her face and I was just shocked,” Swan said. “I had goosebumps all over my skin.”
Police have not yet released the name or age of the victim, as next of kin has not yet been notified.
The group that discovered the body, however, say the woman appeared to be 20 years old or younger.
An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday.
With a report by CTV Edmonton’s David Ewasuk
