Dominica Police examine homicide of medical practitioner
Police in Dominica are investigating the demise of a medical practitioner whose physique was present in a pool of blood at her residence in Goodwill, on the outskirts of the capital Roseau, on Friday.
Police consider the demise of Dr. Velma Valmond, the island’s 17th homicide this yr, is on account of home violence.
Police Inspector, Fixton Henderson, instructed reporters that regulation enforcement officers had responded “to a report of home violence between a lady and her boyfriend” and on arrival on the residence discovered the physique of the 35-year-old girl “in a pool of blood with a extreme laceration throughout her neck”.
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Henderson stated the sufferer was examined and pronounced lifeless by a medical physician and her physique was transported to a funeral residence the place it’s awaiting an post-mortem.
“Velma’s boyfriend, 32 yr outdated boyfriend, Alexander, as additionally discovered on the ground ….and in a state of misery,” Henderson stated, including “he was transported to the Accident and Emergency Division of the Dominica China Friendship Hospital and is in a secure situation.”
The police stated Dr. Valmond’s 18-year-old daughter can also be nursing accidents that had been apparently sustained in the course of the incident and can also be in secure situation on the hospital.
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