A man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a man in Dartmouth.
Halifax Regional Police responded to an apartment above a business in the 0-100 block of Portland Street around 8:49 p.m. Monday after receiving a report that a man was in medical distress.
When officers arrived, they found a man suffering from life-threatening injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The victim has been identified as 52-year-old Darren Clyde Reid of Dartmouth. Police say his death has been ruled a homicide.
Patrol members arrested a 68-year-old Dartmouth man at the scene Monday evening.
“Investigators in the homicide unit of the integrated criminal investigation division have charged 68-year-old Joseph Noel Landry of Dartmouth with second-degree murder in connection with the homicide of 52-year-old Darren Clyde Reid," said Halifax Regional Police Supt. Jim Perrin during a news conference.
Landry appeared in Dartmouth provincial court Wednesday morning.
“Our thoughts are with Mr. Reid’s loved ones,” said Supt. Perrin. “And we hope that the charges announced today bring some measure comfort for them at this difficult time.”
Police say Landry is known to police, and that the incident isn’t a random act as Reid and Landry knew each other.
