One charge of Second Degree Murder has been laid against a Calgary resident after Police responded to a homicide in the Bankview area Friday afternoon.
30-year–old Ahmed Abdulkadir Mohamed has been charged with one count of second degree.
Friday afternoon, police got a call that a man was in distress outside a Bankview apartment at 1510 21 Ave SW.
On arrival they found a stabbing victim, bleeding to death on the front step.
Duty Inspector Paul Stacey of the Calgary Police said "He was collapsed at the bottom of the stairway for the foyer of this building and EMS attended and they transported the man to the foothills hospital in life threatening condition and he has since died in hospital."
Witnesses told CTV the man who was stabbed had been wandering around the parking lot in the morning trying to get into the apartment.
He claimed to be a former resident who was owed money.
Later, a woman who only wanted be identified as Sherri, heard an argument break out on an upper floor, and was first on the scene trying to help the injured man.
Sherri told us, "I heard a loud altercation between them in a language I didn't understand. Came downstairs and I saw the victim lying there. He was in a pretty bad state and wasn't moving."
The victim is the man who came to the apartment
He'd been stabbed in the chest.
Police say the knife may have pierced his heart.
The homicide squad has taken over the investigation.
A man residing in the apartment was taken by police.
Duty Inspector Stacey said, "We have an adult male in custody, whether he is the offender or not I can't confirm at this point. They are questioning him."
At this time the name of the victim is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
