A sudden death investigation in Elgin County is now being treated as a homicide, provincial police say.
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Publishing date: Apr 06, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 1 minute read • An OPP cruiser sits in the driveway of a home on Duff Line south of Melbourne on Monday April 5, 2021. Duff Line is closed between Cowal Road and Iona Road as police investigate a death. (Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press)
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A sudden death investigation in Elgin County is now being treated as a homicide, provincial police say.
Officers responded shortly before 4 a.m. on Sunday to a home on Duff Line in the municipality Dutton Dunwich, southwest of London, following reports of a death, Elgin OPP said.
LONDON, ONT. Ontario Provincial Police say a sudden death investigation in Dutton, Ont. is now considered a homicide. Bradley Shane Chrisjohn, 45, of the Oneida Nation of the Thames was found dead at a residence on Duff Line just before 4 a.m. Sunday. According to police a second person in the home sustained non-life-threatening injuries, however the OPP did not indicate how those injuries were sustained. Police have not released a cause of death for Chrisjohn but they are now treating the case as a homicide after it was initially called a sudden death investigation. The ongoing investigation is being conducted by members of the Elgin County OPP Crime Unit and the OPP Forensic Identification Unit, under the direction of the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) and assisted by the Office of the Chief Coroner.
DUTTON, ONT. Ontario Provincial Police say a sudden death investigation northeast of Dutton, Ont. is now considered a homicide. Bradley Shane Chrisjohn, 45, of the Oneida Nation of the Thames was found dead at a residence on Duff Line between Iona Road and Cowal Line just before 4 a.m. Sunday. A Facebook profile indicates Chrisjohn was known to most by his middle name, Shane.
Shane (Bradley) Chrisjohn, 45, is seen in this undated photo from his Facebook page. According to police, a second person in the home sustained non-life-threatening injuries, however the OPP did not indicate how those injuries occurred. Police have not released a cause of death for Chrisjohn but they are now treating the case as a homicide. It had been initially deemed a sudden death investigation.
Apr 6, 2021 8:15 AM
A sudden death at a residence on Duff Line in Dutton/Dunwich Elgin County on April 4th has now been deemed a homicide. One occupant of the residence was pronounced deceased at the scene, while a second occupant sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The deceased has been identified as Bradley Shane Chrisjohn, age 45, of the Oneida Nation of the Thames. Investigators believe this to have been an isolated incident and that there is no threat to public safety.
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Police continue to investigate a death at a home in the community of Dutton, southwest of London, this weekend.
OPP officers were called at about 4 a.m. to a home near Duff Line in the Elgin County community, though few other details have been made public. Police are calling the death “an isolated incident.”
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“There is no threat to public safety,” police said in a statement.
Anyone with information is asked to contact OPP at 1-800-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).