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Canton police are looking into the death of a three-year-old girl as a homicide.

Police tell the Canton Repository that the girl's father called paramedics late this/Friday morning to a home on Dewalt Avenue Northwest because the child was not breathing.

Paramedics determined the girl was dead, and called police.

Canton Police Chief Bruce Lawver tells NewsChannel 5 that there appeared to be blunt force injury to the child.

He says that there is a suspect being interviewed, but as of yet, there are no charges.

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