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.
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.
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