Baltimore City Police are investigating the stabbing death of a woman in Roland Park.

Police say officers responded to the 600-block of West University Parkway at around 11 p.m. Friday, where they found 59-year-old Molly Macauley who had been suffering from stab wounds.

Macauley was taken to a nearby hospital where she died.

Police believe the woman was walking her dogs when she was confronted by the suspect and stabbed.

Macauley was the Vice President for Research and Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, a Washington based environmental think tank.

In a statement on the think tank's website, Resources for the Future President Linda Fisher issued the following statement to her colleagues.

"For all of us at RFF this is devastating and an incredible shock. Molly was a respected, path-breaking economist, an esteemed leader, whip-smart, and profoundly kind."

Police ask that anyone with information is asked to call Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7Lockup. 

Baltimore City Police officials say detectives and cadets will canvass the area of the killing Monday morning to look for witnesses and other evidence on the killing.