Librarian dies after violent beating, sexual assault in downtown religious building

A librarian has been killed after a violent daytime beating and sexual assault inside the Christian Science Reading Room downtown.
Elisabeth Salm, 59, who has been a librarian at the reading room since May 2011, was found bloodied, beaten unconscious and half-naked inside the office of the drop-in space at 141C Laurier Ave. W., near Elgin Street, around 1 p.m. Thursday.
She was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries where she was on life support. She was pronounced dead Friday. It is t