St. Paul police are investigating a homicide after a woman was found dead Friday morning inside a house in the city’s Frogtown neighborhood along with an uninjured 2-year-old girl.
Officers responded shortly after 5 a.m. to the house in the 300 block of Edmund Avenue after a caller said a woman inside may have been injured, and that the girl may be left alone, Sgt. Toy Vixayvong said at a news conference Friday afternoon.
After no one answered knocks on the door, the officers waited for backup and then made entry, he said. They located the unharmed girl, who was removed from the home and taken to safety. Officers then found a woman who was pronounced dead at the scene by firefighter medics.
Vixayvong said homicide investigators are still working to determine what happened. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s office will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of death. The victim has not yet been identified.
“This is a very tragic event,” Vixayvong said. “It affects not only the family but the whole community.”
No arrests have been made, but there is a person of interest whom Vixayvong said is suspected in the killing. He said the victim and the suspect knew each other.
“We are actively looking for that person,” he said.
The sergeant declined to go into detail when asked about the woman’s injuries, but he said that “based on the trauma of the victim,” police believe it was a homicide.
