{"id":402524,"date":"2026-01-11T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T12:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402524\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T12:16:12","slug":"calgary-woman-charged-with-second-degree-murder-in-death-of-elderly-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402524\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary woman charged with second-degree murder in death of elderly mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police say a 52-year-old woman has been charged with second-degree murder following the death of her mother.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to a home in the southwest community of Canyon Meadows Thursday morning for reports of a deceased woman. The following day, the death of 83-year-old Sharon Helene Roberts was deemed a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, police arrested Roberts&#8217; daughter, Tonnya Marisse, in a southwest Calgary residence about 20 kilometres from where the death was reported.<\/p>\n<p>Marisse faces one count of second-degree murder, and is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said there are no other suspects, and they won&#8217;t comment further for privacy reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It breaks my heart,&#8221; Canyon Meadows resident Colleen Hust told CBC News. &#8220;It&#8217;s a horrible thing to happen so close to home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The case marks the first homicide reported in Calgary in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-402524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}