No Arrests As Vancouver Detectives Investigate City's First Homicide Of 2019

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 02 Jan, 2019 08:56 PM

Vancouver has recorded its first homicide just hours into 2019.

Const. Jason Doucette says in a news release that police were called to an apartment in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside around 8 p.m. on Jan. 1.

He says a 39-year-old man who had been assaulted was found in "obvious medical distress" and died at the scene.

Vancouver Police are investigating the city’s first homicide in 2019. A man in his 30s was killed Tuesday evening in the #DTES.

Anyone with information about this homicide is asked to call police at 604-717-2500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. https://t.co/8xeucjKg4p #VPD pic.twitter.com/Vy0nANspMf
— Vancouver Police (@VancouverPD) January 2, 2019

The victim has been identified as Matthew Dillen Johnson of Vancouver.

Police say, based on the initial investigation, they don't believe the public is at risk.

No arrests have been made.

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