Police say a man who was punched in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has died.
Const. Tania Visintin says 36-year-old Neil Scarisbrick died on Monday.
He is Vancouver's 11th homicide victim this year.
Visintin says police believe the victim and suspect are known to each other, and there is no risk to the public.
On Sunday March 1, 2020, at 8:30 p.m., a Drug Section officer was conducting proactive patrols in the 6500-block of Burlington Avenue.
The body was found on the Lower Mainland in a forested area of north Burnaby on March 11, 2019, but it's estimated he disappeared in 2013.
The federal government is rolling out a $1-billion funding package to help the country's health-care system cope with the increasing number of new coronavirus cases and to help Canadian workers
Sanjay Amrutkar, 38, of Chilliwack, was arrested without incident, for offences dating from August and September 2019, which are alleged to have occurred while working as a physiotherapist. Mr. Amrutkar was initially charged with two counts of sexual assault.
On the heels of a commercial vehicle enforcement blitz, Surrey RCMP have taken a commercial vehicle driver off the road after he was found driving while impaired.
The suspect was described to police as a clean cut middle-aged man, seen wearing brown cowboy boots, blue jeans and a grey hoody while dragging a purple suitcase.