Suspect in Helen Schaller murder has died

By Blair Adams

Waterloo Regional Police say a man, considered a suspect in the murder of Cambridge's Helen Schaller, died as a result of his injuries in hospital on Sunday.

The Cambridge man, 39, who has yet to be named, was found in a wooded area near Franklin Boulevard and Savage Drive on Saturday morning, with what police believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

According to the Special Investigations Unit, which is now probing the incident, the man drove his vehicle into the wooded area shortly after the Emergency Response Unit was called in to conduct a high-risk takedown.

He was transported to Cambridge Memorial Hospital, then later airlifted to a hospital in Hamilton.

Schaller, 58, was shot the afternoon of April 17 on King Street East in the Preston area of Cambridge.

She later died in hospital.

During a roundtable with local media about the recent spike of violent crime in the region on Friday, Waterloo Regional Police Chief Bryan Larkin said the shooting was not targeted.

The SIU, which investigates reports involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault, has assigned three investigators and two forensic investigators to this incident.

Anyone with information is asked to call the SIU at 1-800-787-8529.

They also urge anyone who may have any video evidence related to this incident to upload that video through the SIU website.

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