UPDATE: Victim identified; Milford Man Charged with Murder
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UPDATED: 09/25/24: Milford Police Department has been able to locate next of kin and has released the victim’s name, cause of death and relationship to the one arrested in Sunday’s homicide investigation. The victim has been identified as 50-year-old Rose-Lourdes Gerson Garcon of 400 block of Lakeview Avenue in Milford. The Delaware Division of Forensic Science: Medical Examiner’s Unit has ruled this death as homicide by stabbing. The victim and Edouard Risch Oldens lived in the same residence on Lakeview Ave as roommates. The investigation has confirmed they were not related to each other.聽
Original Post:
Milford Police were called to the area of North Church Street and SW Front Street just before 1pm Sunday for an 18 year old man who was having mental health issues. Police say that he told them he had killed someone. Police responded to a home on Lakeview Avenue in Milford where they found a 50 year old woman dead. Police arrested the 18 year old, identified as Edouard Risch Oldens.
Risch Oldens is charged with 1st degree murder and possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony and is being held at the DOC in default of a $680,000 cash bail.
