The popular resort town of Wasaga Beach, Ont., has been rocked by a second deadly stabbing this long weekend.
Provincial police say a man was killed in an apparent stabbing around 3:30 a.m. Monday on Main Street near a minigolf course in the Georgian Bay community.
This after an 18-year-old Bolton man was fatally stabbed Saturday night outside a Pizza Pizza around 1 kilometre away.
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Details of the second homicide were scarce but police have called in investigators from multiple units and closed off the area.
The victim was identified as Eric Tello by his friend Christina Rovella.
Like Saturday’s victim, Rovella said Tello was also from Bolton, a community in the Town of Caledon, northwest of Toronto.
Police did not release information on any suspects in the latest stabbing and there’s no word if the two incidents are linked.
Friends identified Saturday’s victim as Francesco Molinaro, who police said was in town for the Victoria Day holiday weekend.
“He was one of the funniest ones and he was one of the smallest guys in our pack and he had the biggest bark,” a tearful Rovella said of Molinaro, who she also knew.
“He was going to go somewhere with his life and someone had to take that from him, and it’s not fair.”
Wasaga Beach Mayor Brian Smith said the deaths were devastating and expressed condolences to the families.
“Right now, the Town’s objective is to determine what can be done to try to prevent these altercations from happening in the future,” he said in a statement.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police.
With files from Cindy Pom
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