An 18-year-old man is facing a charge of first-degree murder in last week's death of 59-year-old Elisabeth Salm, a volunteer for the First Church of Christ, Scientist. Salm was found badly beaten Thursday afternoon in a reading room the church operates at 141C Laurier Ave. W in downtown Ottawa. Tyler Hikoalok has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of 59-year-old Elisabeth Salm. Flowers adorn the entrance to the Christian Science Reading Room in Ottawa on Monday, where 59-year-old volunteer Elisabeth Salm was badly beaten Thursday afternoon. A lyric Hikoalok wrote that day read, "I need to be in the studio and not in the trap."

Source: CBC News May 28, 2018 16:07 UTC