1st-degree murder charge in Stonebridge suspicious death

EDITOR’S NOTE: Police initially said the death was Saskatoon’s first homicide of 2018.

Saskatoon police have charged a man with murder in a suspicious death in Stonebridge.

Officers had been called to the 100-block of Cope Crescent on Jan. 7 to check on the welfare of a man.

John McPherson, 60, was found dead inside a Stonebridge home.

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An autopsy confirmed his death was a homicide.

Police have not released the cause of death but it was determined McPherson died on Dec. 31, 2017.

Investigators with the major crime section arrested a 35-year-old man on Thursday.

He has been charged with first-degree murder, unlawful confinement and robbery in the death of McPherson.

He is scheduled to make his first appearance Friday morning in Saskatoon provincial court.