A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder after a woman died in Geraldton, Western Australia last night.
Neighbors called police after hearing a man screaming and shouting shortly before 6.30pm at a house on Melbourne Street.
Police said they found a woman in her 40s with serious injuries. Despite the efforts of paramedics, she died at the scene.
A 21-year-old man, believed to be the woman’s son, was arrested at the scene and charged with her murder.
Neighbors told 9News they saw him walking down the street toward his mother’s home with a gun in his hand.
The woman leaves behind her partner and six children.
Friends of the woman told 9News that she has just turned her life around and only recently got her license.
Her death comes on Day 6 of 16 Days in WA, a local campaign inspired by the global movement against gender-based violence, 16 Days of Activism.
The WA campaign launched in Perth on November 25, which is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and runs until December 10, which is Human Rights Day.
Monday’s launch in Perth began with a powerful message from Ariel Bombara, whose father killed her mother and sister in May this year.
Just 24 hours ago, the Geraldton community marched through the city center in a stand against violence as part of an awareness campaign.
Now they are coming to terms with the loss of one of their own – a mother, grandmother and friend who became the 92nd woman murdered in Australia this year.
