A woman in her 50s is dead following an assault at a plaza in Mississauga on Friday night.
Peel police said they got a call just before 8 p.m. for reports of an assault with a weapon at 1310 Dundas Street East, west of Dixie Road.
“On arrival, they located a woman suffering from severe traumatic injuries, who has since died as a result of those injuries at a local hospital,” Peel police media relations officer Const. Tyler Bell told reporters.
Bell confirmed that officers located a weapon at the scene.
“So the initial call that came into police was that a female had been assaulted using a weapon of sorts. Whether that be a club or a pole or a bat, we don’t know,” he said.
“The weapon is on scene. It’s been recovered and being analyzed for forensics.”
Bell urged anyone who was at the plaza at the time of the incident and saw a man and a woman arguing to contact the police.
“It does not appear to be random,” he said. “Again, what perpetuated the attack on this poor woman, we don’t know. Anyone with information, we’re asked to please contact our homicide investigators, or you can do so anonymously via Crime Stoppers.”

