UPDATE: Man charged in Calgary medical clinic stabbing
Calgary police said one man is dead after a stabbing believed to be “domestic in nature” at a northwest medical clinic Thursday afternoon.
The victim has since been identified by nearby store owners to Global’s Sarah Offin as Dr. Tiejun Huang, the owner and acupuncturist at Perpetual Wellness Chinese Centre where the stabbing occurred. Police believed the owner was the target of the attack.
At around 2:30 p.m., police received a report that someone entered the medical clinic at 1623 Centre Street N.W. with a knife, and stabbed multiple people.
Watch below: Calgary police update stabbing at medical clinic that left one person dead
“I can’t speculate on what the thought process of the suspect was going into this,” Insp. Dean LaGrange said.
“I can tell you all three people were known to each other and it’s domestic in nature.”
Watch below: Calgary police believe the deceased individual in the medical clinic stabbing was the intended target and those involved in the incident knew each other
Paramedics took a middle-aged woman with a “soft tissue injury” to the Sheldon Chumir Health Centre for treatment.
LaGrange said the investigation thus far shows the attacker was in (or had been in) a relationship with that woman.
Watch below: Calgary police say they arrived at the medical clinic very quickly and took the suspect into custody without incident
Police said the suspect suffered minor injuries during the “struggle or fight” then was taken into custody.
“The suspect was pointed out by numerous witnesses,” LaGrange said, adding police were interviewing six people. “He was calm and cooperative with us. He didn’t put up a struggle.”
Nancy Zhu is a nurse who works at Olive Medical Clinic in the building. She said a woman came to her clinic from the Perpetual Wellness Chinese Medicine Centre bleeding from the wrist and asking for help. Zhu said the Olive clinic gave her bandages and called police.
Olive Medical Clinic is across the hall from Perpetual Wellness Chinese Medicine Centre.
Witness Maggie Law works at a facial waxing and makeup business a few doors down from where the incident took place. She said she stepped out of her business, and saw bodies on the floor along with blood and towels.
Police tape blocked off both the Olive Medical Clinic and Perpetual Wellness Chinese Medicine Centre Thursday afternoon.
There were traffic delays on Centre St. around 16 Ave. N.W. and southbound lanes of Centre Street were closed due to the incident.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call police at 403-266-1234, the Homicide Unit Tip Line at 403-428-8877 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
Watch raw video below: Police were on scene at a Calgary medical clinic Thursday afternoon after reports of a stabbing. Paramedics said one person was dead and another taken to hospital.
With files from Global’s Sarah Offin