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2nd-degree murder charge after man confronted for peeing on Saskatoon fence

Saskatoon police said they have charged a fourth person in the city’s third homicide of 2017. Thomas Imo / Photothek via Getty Images

Saskatoon police say the city’s third homicide of 2017 occurred after Tyler Applegate, 27, confronted a man urinating on his fence.

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Officers were initially called to a shooting in the 2300-block of 33rd Street West just before 10 a.m. CT on July 22, 2017.

Applegate was found suffering from a single gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was rushed to Royal University Hospital, and later died from the injury on Aug. 10, 2017.

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Police said the fourth and final person was charged in regards to the death. The man was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with second-degree murder.

He is also facing a charge of discharging a firearm while being reckless as to the life or safety of another person. He was scheduled to appear in provincial court Wednesday morning.

Previously, a woman and two other men were charged with manslaughter in Applegate’s death.

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