{"id":193568,"date":"2025-09-02T07:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193568\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T07:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:44:17","slug":"person-found-dead-in-edmonton-house-fire-prompts-homicide-investigation-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193568\/","title":{"rendered":"Person found dead in Edmonton house fire prompts homicide investigation &#8211; Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives are investigating a suspicious death after a body was found at the scene of a house fire in north Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out early Sunday evening in the Montrose neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/edmonton-police-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edmonton Police Service<\/a> said it got a call from <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/edmonton-fire-rescue-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edmonton Fire Rescue Services<\/a> around 5:40 p.m. asking for officers to come to the scene of a fire they were fighting.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"glide__slides c-photoGallery__slides\">\n<li class=\"glide__slide\" data-caption=\"A person was found dead under suspicious circumstances at a house fire near 59 Street and 119 Avenue in Edmonton's Montrose neighbourhood on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025.\" data-slide-index=\"0\" data-cite=\"Global News\" aria-hidden=\"false\">\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/vlcsnap-00002.jpg\" class=\"c-photoGallery__blurredPhoto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img class=\"c-figure__image c-photoGallery__image c-photoGallery__primaryPhoto\" alt=\"A person was found dead under suspicious circumstances at a house fire near 59 Street and 119 Avenue in Edmonton's Montrose neighbourhood on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025.\"   data-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756799055_161_vlcsnap-00002.jpg\" data- data- loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tView full screen<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"glide__slide\" data-caption=\"A person was found dead under suspicious circumstances at a house fire near 59 Street and 119 Avenue in Edmonton's Montrose neighbourhood on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025.\" data-slide-index=\"1\" data-cite=\"Global News\" aria-label=\"Slide 1 of 2\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/vlcsnap-00001.jpg\" class=\"c-photoGallery__blurredPhoto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img class=\"c-figure__image c-photoGallery__image c-photoGallery__primaryPhoto\" alt=\"A person was found dead under suspicious circumstances at a house fire near 59 Street and 119 Avenue in Edmonton's Montrose neighbourhood on Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025.\"   data-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756799055_571_vlcsnap-00001.jpg\" data- data- loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tView full screen<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Image<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Image<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tClose Modal Gallery<\/p>\n<p>Police said firefighters were dealing with a the house fire near 59 Street and 119 Avenue when they found a dead person inside the home.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The flames gutted the house, and, on Monday, investigators were on site combing through the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Image<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Image<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tClose Modal Gallery<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts 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src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a56caa215b1efbdd33b8f8e7bbc6043dcf509d1a2aa542a836d364712bce89b6.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSome Indigenous businesses halt exports to U.S. despite long-standing free-trade ties\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a news release, EPS shared a screenshot from a video posted to the stories of the anonymous Instagram account Yegwave, in which the caption alleges there was an argument nearby resulting in someone throwing a lit item into a window of the home.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>That information has yet to be verified, and Edmonton police said homicide detectives are looking to speak with the person who captured that video of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are still working to identify the person found dead in the home and officials have yet to schedule an autopsy. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>The fire witness, along with anyone else who may have information related to the blaze or suspicious death, is asked to please contact the EPS as soon as possible at 780-423-4567 or #377 from a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous information can also be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/tipform.aspx?ID=250#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Homicide detectives are investigating a suspicious death after a body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,4219,79362,107996,79363,5025,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-193568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-edmonton-crime","11":"tag-edmonton-fire-rescue-services","12":"tag-edmonton-police-service","13":"tag-fire","14":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115133590473144528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}