The 20-year-old man found dead in a home in North Preston on Sunday was murdered, RCMP said yesterday.
Police have identified the victim as Casey Marleen Downey, but are still not saying how he died.
“After further investigation, the Major Crime Unit felt that they should be treating this as a homicide,” said RCMP spokeswoman Const. Tamu Bracken. “Investigators believe this is an isolated incident.”
Downey’s body was discovered Sunday morning inside a modern, three-storey home on Downey Road after police responded to two separate 911 calls shortly before 6:30 a.m.
Bracken said several people were inside the residence when the officers arrived, and have since been questioned by members of the RCMP’s Major Crime Unit. As of yesterday, no suspects had been identified in the case and no arrests had been made.
A Facebook memorial page has been set up for Downey, and had amassed 130 members by midday yesterday.
The killing is the latest in a string of violent incidents in North Preston since October. The last one occurred in early December, when a 19-year-old man was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after he was shot in his vehicle on Cain Street.
