Man charged with murder in Regina’s fourth homicide of 2024

Regina Police Service (RPS) has charged a 39-year-old Regina man with second-degree murder after the death of a woman in the North Central neighbourhood on Friday night. It is Regina’s fourth homicide of 2024.

Police said in an update on Sunday that the man was found injured in the home where they found the body of a woman after being called to the 1000 block of King Street shortly after 10 p.m. on Aug. 23, 2024.

RPS said the man was taken to hospital with a non-life threatening injury and the woman’s next of kin had been notified.

The man is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 26.

Regina’s first homicide of 2024 did not occur until May, when Everett Wolfe Roberts-Orr died from injuries after being found on Sherwood Drive on May 12. Two people were charged.

The city’s second homicide happened on June 1 after a man was murdered on Reynolds Street near College Avenue. No arrests have been made.

Regina’s third homicide of 2024 was a 25-year-old man who was shot on June 29 in the 1900 block of McIntyre Street. Three people have been charged.

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