A teenage boy has been charged with first-degree murder after a woman was fatally stabbed in Pickering, Ont.

Police received a call to a residential area of the Southern Ontario city around 3 p.m. on Thursday, Durham Regional Police said in a news release . A passerby had noticed an elderly woman lying on the ground outside of a home near Lynn Heights Drive and Fairport Road. The victim was brought to a Toronto-area trauma centre where she was pronounced dead.

On Friday, the 14-year-old suspect appeared in court via video from the Durham Regional Police Division 17 for a hearing in Oshawa, CBC News reported . He said he understood the charges against him and confirmed he had the chance to speak with a lawyer.

In an update to media on Friday morning, acting staff Sgt. Joanne McCabe s

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