DES MOINES, Iowa — Des Moines Police are working to solve the city’s seventh homicide of the year. KCCI reports officers were called at around 8:35 p.m. Sunday, to the 900 block of Randolph Street to investigate a report of a dispute. Arriving officers found the body of a 42-year-old woman.

“Observations at the scene indicated that this was not a death due to natural causes,” Des Moines police said through a news release. Police said witnesses are being interviewed and evidence is being examined in the case.

This is the seventh homicide investigation of 2021 in the city.