Woman charged after body found in Saskatoon parking lot
Police in Saskatoon have charged a 22-year-old woman with impaired driving causing death and failure to stop after a body was found in a parking lot early Saturday morning.
Around 4:30 a.m. CST, police were called to a parking lot on the 700 block of Appleby Drive. Police said the victim, 23-year-old Kiona Nicotine, had been hit by a vehicle and died on scene.
An autopsy is scheduled for later this week.
Netonia Bardell lives in an apartment block connected to the parking lot where the incident took place.
She was awakened by the police presence on Saturday morning and watched from her apartment window as they investigated.
"There was probably 10 police vehicles," she said, noting more officers were also present on the nearby street.
Bardell said roughly an hour after she started watching, a woman arrived on scene and was very upset.
"She was screaming for at least half an hour," she said. "She just kept screaming and screaming."
Bardell says police remained on scene for much of the morning, leaving before 11 a.m.
The Saskatoon Police Service major crimes, forensic identification services and collision analysts were called to investigate.
Anyone with information about this incident was asked to call the Saskatoon Police Service or Crime Stoppers.
