Police arrest 28-year-old man in Saskatoon’s eighth homicide of 2024

The Saskatoon Police Service has made an arrest in the murder of 25-year-old Kade Lee.

Aaron Ironstand, a 28-year-old Saskatoon man was arrested and has already appeared in court for the April 16, 2024 homicide in the 200 block of Avenue O South.

According to police, he is charged with second-degree murder

According to police, officers were called to the 200 block of Avenue O South just before 1 a.m. on Tuesday for a reported shooting.

“Upon arrival, officers located a 25-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound,” the Saskatoon Police Service said in a statement. “The victim was taken to the Royal University Hospital where he was pronounced dead.”

An eyewitness told 650 CKOM, paramedics were there after 1:00 am working on a person lying on the sidewalk.

Saskatoon Homicides of 2024

The year’s first homicide was on Feb. 3 in the Pacific Heights neighbourhood when a 25-year-old Alberta man was found dead in a home on Lisgar Avenue. Two people have been charged.

The second was on Feb. 10 when a 48-year-old man was shot to death in Saskatoon’s Caswell Hill neighbourhood. One man was arrested.

On Feb. 17, a 48-year-old man was killed at a home on Avenue I South after being shot in the third homicide of the year. Two people have been arrested.

A man has been charged in the stabbing death of a 35-year-old Saskatoon on Feb. 19 in the city’s fourth homicide.

The fifth also happened the same day, when two boys aged 12 and 13 were charged in the weapons-related death of another 12-year-old boy in the Massey Place neighbourhood.

A 1-year-old boy was the victim in the city’s sixth homicide in the 100 block of Avenue T South on March 9. A woman has been charged.

Saskatoon’s seventh murder was on April 15 when Melissa Duquette, 24, was found dead in the basement of a house in the Dundonald neighbourhood. Two people have been charged.

In the eighth homicide, also on April 15 a 25-year-old man was shot in the Pleasant Hill neighbourhood.

The following day, April 16, a 30-year-old man died in hospital after being injured on April 15. No one has been arrested.

On June 3, the city’s 10th homicide was recorded in the 800 block of 22nd Street West when Glen Lennie, 29, was stabbed. Two people have been charged.

The 11th murder in the city happened on June 12 when Harvey Zoerb, 66, was killed near Fairhaven Elementary School.

Two people were charged in Saskatoon’s 12th homicide of 2024 after 30-year-old Jordan Lee Morin was killed on Aug. 16 in Riversdale.

Saskatoon’s 13th murder was a 20-year-old woman who was found dead in the Copper Mug parking lot on November 15.

A 37-year-old man was murdered in Caswell Hill on Nov. 17. It was Bridge City’s 14th homicide of 2024.