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Vancouver Police Say Suspect Arrested, Charged Following Weekend Homicide

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 07 Mar, 2017 10:16 AM
    Vancouver police say a man has been charged after the fourth homicide in the city last weekend.
     
    Const. Jason Doucette says police were called to a condominium near the city's downtown on Saturday when a man was found dead inside the building.
     
    The victim has been identified as 39-year-old Sofien Kazdaghli.
     
    Doucette says police arrested a suspect on Sunday just before he was about to board a Greyhound bus leaving the city.
     
    Doucette says both men lived in the building and were known to each other.
     
    Twenty-one-year-old Diego Huerta has been charged with second-degree murder.

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