The Canton Police Department is investigating extensive damage to a home in the community involving ‘numerous juveniles.’

“We are aware of and have been actively investigating a recent malicious damage incident involving numerous juveniles since we received the call for service late Sunday morning,” Canton Police Chief Helena Rafferty said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.

The incident is under active investigation and when pressed for further information, Rafferty said that a report on the incident was not yet available.

Rafferty said that her department is “in constant contact with the contractor/homeowner” and has “engaged outside municipal police agencies to assist us with the extensive interview process of those involved and other aspects of the case.”

Canton as a community has been under turmoil on the national stage as the place where both Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe and resident Sandra Birchmore died under criminally contested circumstances. The cases led to an ongoing audit of the local police department.

O’Keefe’s death specifically has come under the glare of a national spotlight at the center of the Karen Read case.

Prosecutors have charged Read, 44, a resident of Mansfield, with the murder of O’Keefe, her boyfriend of about two years at the time of his death on Jan. 29, 2022. Norfolk County prosecutors say Read ran O’Keefe down with her Lexus SUV and left him to freeze and die on the front lawn of Canton home.

Birchmore was pregnant when she died on Feb. 1, 2021, in what appeared to be a suicide attempt in her Canton apartment. But federal prosecutors say that she was impregnated by a Stoughton cop who had groomed her since she was a child and then killed her to cover up his crimes and staged the scene to look like a suicide.