Arrest made in February east-end homicide

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Ottawa police have arrested one man in relation to a February homicide.

Samuel Laurin-Gauvreau, 25, of Ottawa, was arrested on an outstanding warrant in the Feb. 15 stabbing death of Omar Jonathan Grant, also 25.

Laurin-Gauvreau was scheduled to appear in court on March 18.

Police were called to a highrise apartment building at 500 St. Laurent Blvd. at about 9:25 p.m. on Feb. 15 for a “disturbance,” police said at the time.

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Police said a 25-year-old male was discovered at the residence.

Ottawa paramedics transported two men to hospital after receiving a call to the address at about 9:30 p.m., and first man had sustained “penetrative trauma” and was pronounced dead at hospital.

A second man, in his 30s, was taken to hospital in stable condition with a head injury, paramedics said.

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