Halifax police have charged a man in connection with second degree murder in connection with the discovery of a man’s body in a Spryfield apartment building on Wednesday.
Officers were called to an apartment building on Autumn Drive in Spryfield after a report of an unresponsive man inside.
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When investigators went inside, they found a man, identified as 26-year-old Blaine Gordon Clothier, dead.
Police say Clothier had been stabbed.
Later in the afternoon, 25-year-old Benjamin Joshua Gillis was arrested in an apartment in the 5000 block of Inglis Street and remains in custody.
He has been charged with second-degree murder and is scheduled to appear in Halifax provincial court Thursday.
An autopsy on Clothier is scheduled for Thursday.
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