An autopsy determined that the woman who was found dead this week at her home in Pittsford died from a “gunshot wound of head and neck,” according to Vermont State Police.
However, the manner of 41-year-old Erica Bovey’s death remains “pending,” according to a Thursday press release from state police.
An earlier state police press release from Wednesday termed the death as “suspicious.”
Police began their investigation into Bovey’s death around 2:10 a.m. Wednesday after authorities received a call from a resident at a home on Hollister Quarry Road in Pittsford reporting that a person there had died.
First responders who arrived at the scene confirmed that the person, later identified as Bovey, who also lived at the home, was deceased, according to police.
Asked why the manner of Bovey’s death was listed as pending, police spokesperson Adam Silverman replied in an email Friday, “cause and manner of death are determinations of the medical examiner’s office.”
Silverman added, “VSP’s investigation remains active and ongoing at this time while we await further information from the medical examiner.”
No one was in custody related to the investigation as of Friday afternoon, Silverman said.
Kyle Casteel, a spokesperson for the Vermont Department of Health, the state department in which the Vermont’s Chief Medical Examiner’s is located, declined to comment specifically on Bovey’s case and why the manner of death was still listed as pending.
“I can share that in general, it takes time to establish the manner of death in an investigation, and the record will be updated when the facts are confirmed,” Casteel said in an email.
