Vancouver police investigating city's 1st homicide of the year
Man killed in Downtown Eastside apartment on New Year's Day
Police are investigating Vancouver's first homicide of 2019.
Vancouver resident Matthew Dillen Johnson, 39, died Jan. 1 in an apartment on Powell Street near Gore Street in the Downtown Eastside, police say.
Officers responded to an assault call at the apartment just after 8 p.m. PT and found a man in medical distress. Police said he died at the scene.
The VPD's homicide unit is investigating. No arrests have been made but detectives do not believe the public is at risk.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 604-717-2500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
There were 15 homicides in the city in 2018, according to VPD spokesperson Jason Doucette.
Vancouver Police are investigating the city’s first homicide in 2019. A man in his 30s was killed Tuesday evening in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DTES?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DTES</a>. <br><br>Anyone with information about this homicide is asked to call police at 604-717-2500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. <a href="https://t.co/8xeucjKg4p">https://t.co/8xeucjKg4p</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VPD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VPD</a> <a href="https://t.co/Vy0nANspMf">pic.twitter.com/Vy0nANspMf</a>
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