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Calgary police investigate suspicious death after man dropped off at hospital, later dies

A 2021 study found 75 per cent of police-involved civilian fatalities in Canada involved a person experiencing a mental-health crisis or who was under the influence of a substance. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Calgary police are investigating a suspicious death after a man was dropped off at the Peter Lougheed hospital and later died.

Police say the man in his early 20s was brought to the hospital around 4:30 a.m. Saturday.

They believe he had been injured in an altercation at a Highland Park home in the 100 block of 42 Avenue N.E. about an hour before he was dropped off.

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An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.

An investigation is ongoing and police are asking anyone with information to contact them at 403-266-1234 or through Crime Stoppers.

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