Lethbridge police deem death of nine-month-old boy a homicide

The Lethbridge Police Service has identified Austin Lucas Wright as the victim of the city's fourth homicide of 2016 (obituary/Cornerstone Funeral Home)

Members of the Lethbridge Police Service continue to investigate the death of nine-month-old Austin Lucas Wright following an autopsy.

According to police, EMS responded to a home in the 600 block of 17 Street North on April 28, 2016. The paramedic crew located the baby boy in cardiac arrest. The child was not breathing.

EMS transported Austin Lucas Wright to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The Calgary Medical Examiner's Office has conducted an autopsy. The results of the autopsy have not been released.

On Thursday, police confirmed Austin's death is considered a homicide.