Police are investigating the death of an Ottawa woman earlier this week as a suspected case of femicide .

At around 11:30 a.m. Monday, Ottawa police were called to a home on Carousel Crescent, near Hunt Club Road, and found a woman dead inside. She has been identified as 54-year-old Tracy Duncan.

Stephen Doane, 57, of Ottawa, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder. He is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.

Ottawa police is widely considered the first police force in Canada to use the term “femicide” — as it has labelled this case — in its policing after officially using it to describe a case for the first time in August 2024. That year, the force responded to 6,636 incidents of intimate partner violence, which resulted in 3,355 charges laid.

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