FIVE ISLANDS, N.S. — The RCMP are investigating a woman's death in central Nova Scotia after officers responded Monday to a report of shots fired.
Criminal investigators say the woman's body was discovered at about 7:05 p.m. on a road leading to the Sand Point Beach campground in Five Islands, a small community about 75 kilometres west of Truro, N.S.
RCMP Cpl. Chris Marshall said in an interview that the medical examiner is determining the woman's cause of death and that police have classified the case as suspicious.
Marshall says one person who was known to the dead woman was taken into custody at 8:30 a.m. today in relation to the incident, but he couldn't provide the person's relationship to the deceased woman.
He says police don't think the shooting was random or that there is any risk to the public.
The location at the intersection of Wharf Road and Sand Point Hill Lane is about an hour's drive west of Portapique, N.S., where the April 18-19, 2020, mass shooting began that killed 22 people.
Marshall says RCMP considered issuing a public alert to the area overnight on Monday but determined there was "no credible or imminent threat to public safety."
"This was very much an isolated incident between two people who are known to each other," he said.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 10, 2023.
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