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Ranchlands suspicious death investigated by Calgary police

Calgary police are investigating a suspicious death in the northwest community of Ranchlands.

Medical examiner, homicide unit called in to investigate

Police vehicles and tape were still outside the home on Monday morning, after a body was found on Sunday. (Monty Kruger/CBC)

Calgary police are investigating a suspicious death in the northwest community of Ranchlands.

The call came in around 5:30 p.m. Sundayfrom someone who discovered a body in ahome on RanchlandsBay NW.

Both the medical examiner and homicide unit have been called in.

Police say the body was found in a housing project.

Calgary police at the scene on Sunday night. (Kate Adach/CBC )

Anne Scott, wholives just a couple of doors down from where the body was discovered, said hertruck was broken into earlier in the day on Sunday butshe didn't hear any noise or partying in the area.

She said she's not too rattled by the death and the police presence.

"I'm not too concerned," Scott said."I know that we got a really amazing police force that does do amazing compared to the number of people we have in the city."

Leslie Kennedy, who's lived in the area for three years,saidRanchlands is generally a safe place to live and she's never seen anything like this before.

"I feel really weird," she said. "It's not such a good thing for yourneighbourhood."

Evidence markers on the ground near the home in Ranchlands where a body was found. (Monty Kruger/CBC)