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Vancouver police were called to a rooming house in Gastown early Sunday morning, where two men had been stabbed.
According to Vancouver Police Department spokesman Sgt. Steve Addison, when police arrived at 5:30 a.m., they found one of the men had died at the scene, while the other was seriously injured and taken to hospital.
Addison said the deceased man was a 40-year-old from Vancouver, while the injured man was 28 and also from Vancouver.
A 48-year-old Vancouver man was arrested nearby and remains in custody.
This is Vancouver’s first homicide of the year.
Last January, 45-year-old Tonya Hyer was found beaten to death in her room in the same building at 112 Water Street. The property is managed by Atira Property Management, a company owned by Atira Women’s Resource Society.
![January 24, 2010 - Facebook photo of Tonya Hyer killed in Gastown. Vancouver Police today identified the 45-year-old as the victim in the city's third homicide of 2020.Officers responded to a call from paramedics at 112 Water Street at about 1:30 a.m. on January 19. The victim had been injured but paramedics were unable to resuscitate her. Facebook photo. NOTE: BEST IMAGE QUALITY AVAILABLE [PNG Merlin Archive]](https://smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital/vancouversun/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/13592770_10154276079949933_7184459758604705737_n-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1128&type=webp)
Atira began managing the 95-room Gastown Hotel in 2015. The hotel is owned by the provincial government and rooms cost $375 a month.
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