Saskatoon Police investigate 15th homicide of 2024 in Pleasant Hill

The Saskatoon Police Service is investigating another homicide in Bridge City.

Saskatoon has seen 15 homicides in 2024, making it the second highest for homicides since 1981. In two other years, Saskatoon had 16 murders. The homicide victims’ age ranged from one year to 66 for the first 14, the 15th has yet to be released. (Alex Brown/650 CKOM)

No other details are being released at this time, but the body was found in the 1700 block of 22nd Street West.

The Saskatoon Police Service were on scene for the Bridge City’s 15th homicide of 2024. (Alex Brown/650 CKOM)

Just across the street Police swarmed the corner house in September as there was a standoff with the man who was eventually arrested in connection to stabbings that occurred on Sept. 18 and Sept. 23.

Saskatoon police were called to a home at the corner of 22nd St W and Ave Q S around 1 p.m. on Sept. 28, 2024, and police were seen surrounding a house with guns drawn. (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call Saskatchewan RCMP at 310-RCMP, their local police service or to inform Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or at saskcrimestoppers.com.

This map shows where the Saskatoon Police Services have said 14 of the murders have taken place in 2024. (Google Maps/Céline Grimad/650CKOM)

Saskatoon has seen 15 homicides in 2024, making it the second highest for homicides since 1981. Two other years had 16 murders.

The homicide victims’ age ranged from one year to 66 for the first 14, the 15th has yet to be released.

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.

The eighth homicide, also on April 15 is unsolved after 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.