Authorities are investigating after a woman was found dead inside of a home in Billerica on Thursday, officials said.
Officers responding to a 911 call for an unresponsive female at a home on Village Lane around 10:17 a.m. found the victim, a woman in her 60s, suffering from apparent trauma and pronounced her dead, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office said.
Her neighbors were left shaken and said the woman was a grandmother.
“It’s so sad it’s very, very sad,” Catherine Johnson said. “She was so kind-hearted. We all loved her, she never had a bad word.”
Thursday night, investigators could be seen going in and out of the home’s garage. On the front steps, an evidence marker,\ and just inside the front door, measurements were being taken as police tried to figure out what exactly happened.
“She was the original owner of the house and when I moved into the neighborhood she was very kind,” Johnson said. “Had a lot in common and we’re all going to miss her terribly.”
The event was not random and there is no threat to the public, officials said.
“An awful thing to see in here and will probably never be the same,” Johnson said. “We will carry on and that’s all we can do and pray that she’s in a better place.”
The investigation is ongoing.
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