Man in custody following fatal Maple Ridge stabbing

RCMP responded to a domestic dispute in the 22800-block of Nelson Court in Maple Ridge at approximately 11:00pm on October 28th.

Police arrived to find a man in his 20’s suffering from a stab wound. He was pronounced deceased at the scene. A woman was also found injured, she was taken to hospital for non life threatening injuries.

Police arrested another man in his early 20s. His identity has not been released. All three people are members of the same immediate family and weren’t known to police, said IHIT spokesman Cpl. Frank Jang. Investigators believe it was an isolated incident and said the homicide was not a case of spousal violence or has anything to do with a romantic relationship.

No other information is available at this time.

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