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Two men were arrested at the Saskatoon provincial jail on Tuesday, in connection with the city’s 12th homicide of the year. On Aug. 16, on the property of a home in the 200 block of Avenue I South when police responded to information indicating someone had been injured there.
Saskatoon police investigators arrested a 37-year-old man and a 28-year-old man at the correctional facility, police said in a Wednesday news release. The 37-year-old had previously been charged with second-degree murder in the death of , 30. He is also charged with indecently interfering with and offering an indignity to human remains.
The 28-year-old is the fourth person charged in the homicide investigation. He is charged with second-degree murder. Both men appeared in court on Wednesday.
A 24-year-old woman and a 27-year-old woman were previously charged with being accessories after the fact. Other homicides in 2024: — The first of the year was a 25-year-old Alberta man whose body was found in a home in the 600 block of Lisgar Avenue in the early hours of Feb. 3.
Officers executing a search warrant related to an aggravated assault investigation involving firearms discovered the body. A and a are charged with first-degree murder. — On Feb.
9, a 48-year-old Saskatoon man died of a gunshot wound. A is charged in that case. — The involved a 48-year-old man who died in hospital from a gunshot wound on Feb.
17. Last month, first-degree murder charges were laid against three men, ages 34, 36 and 37. — The took place on Feb.
19. According to police, officers responded around 2 p.m.
to a report of a man stabbed in the 200 block of 20th Street West. A 24-year-old man was charged with second-degree murder. — In the city’s fifth homicide, a on Feb.
19. Police charged a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy with manslaughter. They can’t be identified under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Both boys also face weapons-related charges. — A 42-year-old woman was charged with criminal negligence causing death after the body of a one-year-old boy was found at a home in the 100 block of Avenue T South. Police responded to the home on March 9 after a report of a sudden death.
— The were unrelated but took place mere hours apart: Officers responded on April 15 around 11:20 a.m. to the 3200 block of 33rd Street West after reports of an insecure property and found a woman dead in the basement.
They confirmed her identity: 24-year-old Melissa Duquette. Barely 13 hours later on April 16, officers responded around 12:50 a.m.
to reports of a shooting in the 200 block of Avenue O South. They found a 25-year-old man with a gunshot wound. He was rushed to Royal University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
His mother identified him as Kade Lee, 25. — The city’s at a home on Chandler Place on April 15 around 4 a.m.
A 30-year-old man was rushed to hospital, where he later died. — A after a stabbing in the 800 block of 22nd Street West on June 3. — The 11th homicide occurred in the 400 block of Forrester Road in the early morning of June 12.
A 66-year-old man was found with life-threatening injuries in a parking lot next to Fairhaven School. He . The city .
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