SASKATOON – A 24-year-old man has been charged by Saskatoon police in connection to the city’s fifth homicide of 2015. On Tuesday afternoon, members of the police’s street gang unit arrested the suspect at a home in the 400-block of Mowat Crescent.
The suspect has been charged with second-degree murder and is scheduled to appear in provincial court Wednesday morning. His name has not been released.
On April 18, police were called to a report of a man who had been stabbed in the parking lot of a motel in the 600-block of Idylwyld Drive North at around 6:30 a.m.
William Johnston, 44, was found suffering from life threatening injuries. He was taken to hospital and pronounced dead around 7 a.m.
An autopsy confirmed the cause of Johnston’s death was from a stabbing.
The major crimes unit continues to investigate.
READ MORE: Two charged after Saskatoon’s 2nd homicide of 2015
Comments