A 52-year-old Calgary man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with a Tuesday morning stabbing in a northwest neighbourhood that left one person dead.
Emergency crews were called to the 7700 block of 41st Avenue Northwest, in the community of Bowness, at around 3:25 a.m. Tuesday for a disturbance.
A man with stab wounds was pronounced dead at the scene.
On Wednesday afternoon, police identified the stabbing victim as 54-year-old Sean Michael Barber of Calgary following the completion of an autopsy.
Two men were taken into police custody for questioning but investigators have since determined that one of the men was a witness to the attack and wasn’t involved.
Dennis George Hart, 52, was charged in the fatal stabbing of Barber and remained in custody ahead of his court appearance scheduled for Friday.
Heath Basque told Global News that he was the one who called 911 after Barber, his best friend, was attacked in the home.
“There was a man who came here (after) his ex-girlfriend came here, and he was assaulting her,” said Basque of the events of Tuesday morning. “I started banging on the door, acting like the police.”
According to Basque, the unwanted visitor let the woman leave the home but a fight soon broke out between the visitor and Barber.
“She ran out. I got her to safety. As I came back, I saw through the crack of the door of the balcony (that) the suspect was punching my best friend and (Barber) was saying ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I don’t know where she is.’
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“And then I heard him just moaning.”
Basque said he made the emergency call after seeing the attack on his friend.
“I made the phone call to police and they didn’t get here fast enough.”
Basque says Barber was a single dad to “two beautiful children” and was on a path to recovery.
“He was trying to better his life. I was here trying to help steer him in the right direction.”
A man suffering from stab wounds was found dead in a home in the northwest community of community on Sept. 12.
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