Winnipeg Police responded to the report of an assaulted male in a residential suite in the 300 block of Langside Street on July 8, 2023, at approximately 10:30 p.m.

On arrival police located 64-year-old, Marcel Alphonse Painchaud deceased.

On July 10, 2023, police arrested 42-year-old, Abdiazia Ahmed Saeed, and charged him with Second Degree Murder. Police said the accused and the victim were tenants in the same building and known to each other. An altercation occurred inside the victim’s suite, resulting in the fatal stabbing of Painchaud.