By Nigel Maxwell

Police investigating a murder in Prince Albert

Jan 31, 2015 | 8:27 AM

The Prince Albert Police Service is investigating the city’s first murder of 2015.

A 36-year-old man was found in critical condition Friday night, at a residence in the 800 block of River Street West.  The man later died in hospital. 

According to a police news release, they received a call around 9 p.m., about a weapons complaint.

When officers arrived on scene two women, ages 33 and 22, had been assaulted. Their injuries were not life threatening.

Police are not releasing any further details at this time.

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The Criminal Investigation Division, Forensic Evidence Section and Coroner’s Office are investigating.

Crime details from the eye of a neighbour

The couples neighbour, Connie Cappo, was distraught as she described what happened on Friday night. 

“The lady came over..between quarter after and 8:30 …..She came running over saying she needed help .I asked her if everything was okay and she said she needed help, to help her husband and I wasn’t sure what condition he was in or what happened at the time,” said Cappo. “She was already bloody and everything when she came [running] and she was crying and begging us to help her husband.” 

Cappo’s fiancé went over to the neighbour’s house, instructing Connie to stay behind for her own safety.

“He went in and he put it [the towel] on him and looked at him and he was gargling [to breath].”

Cappo said the woman who had come over to her house had been hurt as well. 

“She had a swollen face and I knew right away that they hit her and I knew that wasn’t good,” said Cappo.

Cappo stood outside for a brief time waiting for her fiancés return.   

“I looked toward the back alley and two men were getting into a car and they were driving and the other guy said ‘we got to get the **** out of here, hurry up,’ and they jumped in and they drove back and they were going towards the east…and they left,” she said. 

Cappo didnt know her neighbour well but the situation has left her so upset she said she doesn’t want to live in the area anymore. 

“She was my neighbour but…we were not familiar with each other all that much. In the time that I lived here she said hi to me off and on like about three or four times, and it was nothing bad, it was peaceful, it was always quiet,” she said. “They always had respect and privacy for us and they never bothered us in anyway.” 

-With files from paNOW’s Kayla Bruch 

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