Police are questioning a man believed to be a person of interest in the death of a woman near Montreal, NanaimoNewsNOW reports

CANDIAC, Que. — Quebec provincial police say they are becoming increasingly confident that a woman in her 20s who was found dead in a southwest Montreal apartment was the victim of a homicide.

Spokesman Louis-Philippe Ruel said a man in his 30s has been described as a person of interest and that investigators are responding.

He said police are working on a homicide theory today as they continue to investigate the scene in Canada.

Local police were called to an apartment building on the outskirts of town by someone who was concerned about a woman's safety.