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Man charged with 2nd-degree murder in homicide outside East Vancouver restaurant

Police tape outside the restaurant where Dam was fatally injured in April. Global News

A man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with an East Vancouver homicide earlier this year.

Minh Huu Dam, 55, was badly injured around 1:30 in the morning near Kingsway and Nanaimo on April 22. He was rushed to hospital, but later died.

Police arrested a 48-year-old man at the scene. Investigators believe the two men knew each other, and had gotten into an altercation on the street a few blocks away from where Dam was found.

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That altercation escalated into a fight outside of a restaurant, police said, in which Dam was fatally injured.

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Police said Crown approved the murder charge against Vancouver resident Ngoc Chau Nguyen, who remains in custody, on Wednesday.

Dam’s death was Vancouver’s 7th homicide of 2018.

 

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