UPDATE: 11:50 May 27
On May 27 Vancouver police released the identity of the man killed over the long weekend.
Richard William Hooper, 59, died in hospital Monday, May 25 after being stabbed on Saturday, May 22.
ORIGINAL: 2:25 p.m. May 25
Vancouver police are investigating the city's seventh homicide of 2021.
Saturday (May 22) around 2:30 a.m. police were called to a home near Joyce Street and Vanness Avenue in the Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood after reports of an injured man, according to a Vancouver Police Department (VPD) press release. Upon arrival, they found a 59-year-old man with multiple stab wounds.
He was rushed to hospital; unfortunately, he died Monday.
Saturday police arrested a man in connection with the stabbing; now that the victim has died Rajesh Narayan, 38, has been charged with second-degree murder. Police believe Narayan knew the victim before the stabbing.
The VPD's homicide unit is still investigating; anyone with information about the case is asked to call 604-717-2500.
