Edmonton police are investigating a suspicious death after a man was fatally stabbed early Wednesday morning in the northeast neighbourhood of Newton.
Police were called around 3:30 a.m. to a weapons complaint near 118 Avenue and 54 Street. Officers arrived to find a man had been stabbed.
He was treated on scene by EMS and taken to hospital, where he died.
Police blocked off a section of sidewalk in the residential neighbourhood, where blood, medical debris and a shoe could be seen in front of a home.
Resident Lorne Kuzyk has lived in the east Edmonton neighbourhood for 61 years, growing up in Newton and choosing to stay there as an adult. He said he lived on a quiet street until three years ago, when new neighbours moved in.
He alleges there was a stream of people coming and going from the home in question, suspected criminal activity was happening, and believes there was a shooting three weeks ago.
“A lot of police presence and now this,” said Kuzyk, who claimed residents have become afraid to come out of their homes.
“It’s just an ongoing problem for the last three years. We’ve never had problems in this district at all. Newton is a great community to live in, lots of young people moving in now. It’s an older district, lot of older people here, and now this.”
Resident Doug Lakusta lives in the house and told Global News a fight broke out because someone was allegedly mad about being woken up.
“A fair fight, it ended up into the guy’s evicting the guy, going in there to get him, buddy protecting himself because the guy was bigger, right? You know what I mean? He was a smaller so he used a knife, right? I dunno, he was scared, right?”
Lakusta said the fight spilled out to the front street. He claims the victim was stabbed while trying to step in and help the other man being beaten up.
Witnesses were taken into custody for questioning, but no arrests have been made.
The identity of the victim is not known. An autopsy has yet to be scheduled.
Homicide detectives are investigating.
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