Police investigating Edmonton's 13th homicide

EDMONTON - A downtown rooming house has been taped off, after one of its residents died in hospital Saturday following an early morning altercation.

Police were called to the house, located at 107th Avenue and 96th Street, just before 1 a.m. by the victim himself, who was found collapsed on the sidewalk when emergency crews arrived. The man in his 20s was rushed to hospital, where he later died of his injuries.

Investigators are not revealing the cause of his injuries, but say an autopsy is scheduled for Monday afternoon.

"I don't know what happened," said Nick Hanna, a resident of the rooming house who told Global Edmonton he slept through the incident. "He just got killed. He got stabbed up."

After speaking with Hanna and 14 other residents of the rooming house, investigators believe alcohol played a factor in the altercation.

"Groups of people were drinking and something happened to instigate an argument or a fight between the peope inside," said Det. Johnson.

Detective Dale Johnson says police currently have a person in custody, who was found shortly after police arrived at the scene a close distance away. Charges have not yet been laid though.