Durham Regional Police say they are investigating a homicide after a woman was found with “significant injuries” in an Oshawa home overnight.

Police were called to a home on Eulalie Avenue in the area of ​​King Street East and Ritson Road South around 12:30 a.m. Sunday.

“Officers arrived on scene and located a 48-year-old female suffering from obvious signs of trauma,” said Sgt. Joanne Bortoluss told reporters outside the home Sunday morning.

First responders performed CPR and the woman was rushed to a Toronto-area trauma center, police said. However, she was pronounced dead a short time later.

“Her husband, a 41-year-old man, is in police custody and is facing a charge of first-degree murder,” Bortoluss said.

She added that the couple’s two children – both aged five – as well as an elderly woman were at home at the time of the incident. However, none of them were injured.

Yellow caution tape could be seen wrapped around the house on Sunday, with a police car sitting outside.

One man who spoke to CP24 said he woke up to the flashing lights of what “seemed like a million police cars” and his family looked outside to see what happened.

“They saw them pull a woman out and try to revive her, and they saw our neighbor being pulled over and arrested, and yes, the children being taken out of the house,” said Ron Mohr. “It’s unfortunate because we’ve been here 18 years and we’ve never seen anything like this before.”

Another woman told CP24 she was shocked to wake up to the news in her neighborhood, which she described as generally friendly.

“They’re very, very nice, all the neighbors, but I don’t remember him,” June Frances Broomer said of her neighbor who was arrested. She called the situation “scary.”

Bortoluss said investigators are appealing to anyone with information about the crime to come forward to speak with police.

She also said services are available to anyone who needs help with domestic violence.

“When it comes to intimate partner violence, there are no geographic locations. It really affects everywhere and anywhere, and that’s why we want to emphasize that resources are available,” she said. “And if you need us, if you need victim services, we’re all here to help.”

Police are asking anyone with information to contact investigators.

With files from Melissa Duggan