Vermont State Police have released new details about their investigation into the suspicious death of a woman who was dropped off at a hospital on Friday afternoon with an apparent gunshot wound to the head.
Police said their investigation began around 3:30 p.m. on Friday when they learned the injured woman had been brought to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington with what they believed to be a gunshot wound to the head. The woman later died at the hospital.
But in a news release Sunday, state police said that the woman did not suffer a gunshot wound, and that an autopsy determined that her cause of death was "blunt force trauma to the head and neck." The manner of death has not been released.
State police also identified the woman on Sunday as 31-year-old Angelica Barbour, of Brattleboro.
Detectives have determined that the incident in which Barbor was injured occurred at a home on Route 11 in Londonderry, near the intersection with Mansfield Lane, state police said. An individual who was initially detained by Bennington police in connection with the incident has since been released.
State police are now asking anyone with information that could assist investigators to call them at 802-722-4600 or leave an anonymous tip online at https://vsp.vermont.gov/tipsubmit.