A 32-year-old man is charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 28-year-old Alberta man in February.
A third person has been charged this week in connection with Saskatoon’s first homicide of 2024, which occurred in the early hours of Feb. 3.
At the time, the body of a 25-year-old Alberta man was found in a home in the 600 block of Lisgar Avenue.
On Wednesday, the city police major crimes section arrested and charged a 32-year-old man with first-degree murder, police said in a news release on Thursday.
“He was believed to be known to the victim.”
The suspect was already incarcerated in a Saskatoon correctional facility on unrelated charges at the time of his arrest, police said.
Other homicides in 2024:
— In the city’s sixth homicide of 2024, 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.
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, police said in a news release. They confirmed the woman’s identity: 24-year-old Melissa Duquette.
Then, barely 13 hours later, officers responded on April 16 around 12:50 a.m. to reports of a shooting in the 200 block of Avenue O South. They arrived to find a 25-year-old man with a gunshot wound. Police in a news release said he was rushed to Royal University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
His mother identified him as Kade Lee, 25.
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