Two men were arrested after they allegedly stabbed a man who they were trying to rob, Kingston police say.

The suspect, who the Special Investigations Unit later identified as Evan Freeman, was pronounced dead at the scene.

A family member and a long-time friend of the stabbing suspect say the man they knew was nothing like the person captured in video footage of the attack.

Several friends of a man who was killed in a violent stabbing in downtown Kingston are remembering him the day after the attack.