HALIFAX — Police in Halifax are looking for a woman accused of assaulting a man days before he died at an encampment for homeless people.
HALIFAX — Police in Halifax are looking for a woman accused of assaulting a man days before he died at an encampment for homeless people.
Halifax Regional Police say Nova Scotia’s medical examiner service recently confirmed the man was the victim of a homicide.
Police say that on Dec. 22, officers were dispatched to the encampment in Dartmouth, where they were told the man had been assaulted by a female.
But the man refused medical treatment and told police he didn’t want an investigation.
Four days later, 56-year-old Jeffrey Alexander Emmerson was found dead inside a tent near Geary Street.
Police say the woman they are looking for is white, four feet ten inches tall, between 20 and 25 years old, with shoulder-length dark hair.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 26, 2025.
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