Police in Cape Breton are investigating after a man suffered serious head injuries on the weekend.
Officers were called to the basement apartment of a home on West Avenue in the New Aberdeen area of Glace Bay around 2 a.m. Sunday.
When they arrived on the scene they found a 24-year-old man in the apartment.
They say the man was unconscious and had sustained serious head injuries.
The victim was rushed to the Cape Breton Regional Hospital and later transferred to a Halifax hospital, where he remains in critical condition.
Police are trying to determine if the man was the victim of an assault.
“We just have not determined the circumstances that led up to his injuries at this point,” says Staff Sgt. Robert Walsh. “We are still investigating and trying to determine what happened to this man.”
In a strange twist, the apartment house is the same complex police searched in connection with the unsolved murder of 21-year-old Laura Jessome.
Jessome's body was found inside a hockey bag on the Mira River in May. Days later, police swooped down on the same apartment house where the injured man was found.
No arrests were made at the time but a tenant was charged with attempted murder in connection with an unrelated case at a later date.
“It’s getting worse all the time,” says area resident Bill Boozan. “There has been more police activity here in the last year than the last 40 years. Something has to be done.”
Angel Hurley moved into a home next door to the complex earlier this month, along with her three young children. Hurley says she was unaware of the apartment’s history when she and her family moved in.
“I kind of wish I did not move here, if it’s going to be like this,” says Hurley. “I am hoping police will do something and make sure this neighbourhood is a better place to live. There’s lots of families around.”
Investigators say they will continue to treat the case as suspicious until they learn the circumstances of the man’s injuries.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Randy MacDonald
