LaSalle police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman over the weekend.
Officers, responding to a request for a welfare check, discovered the body of 34-year-old Amanda Lyons Saturday morning in a home on Sugarwood Crescent. Police say they continue to look for her husband, 34-year-old Blair Lyons.
Investigators say Lyons' vehicle was found abandoned Saturday morning on the Ambassador Bridge and have suggested that he may have jumped. Dive crews from the LaSalle Fire Department, Windsor police, and from the Canadian Forces' Joint Rescue Coordination Centre at Trenton have spent the last three days searching the Detroit River.
"The LaSalle Police are in the very early stages of the investigation and have no further details to release at this time," read a post on the service's Facebook page. "We would like to reassure the public that there is no risk to public safety and ask that everyone avoid the area as we conduct our investigation. We also ask that everyone respects the family's privacy during this very difficult time."
A GoFundMe page has been set up to raise money for the Lyons' three children, aged five, four, and eight months.
"Amanda leaves behind her three beloved children, who were the absolute lights of her life," wrote Jessica Tullio, who set up the page. "She loved them fiercely, and everything she did was for them. We are heartbroken for them and the difficult journey they now face."
The page had a goal of $30,000. As of Tuesday morning, it had raised six times that amount.
