{"id":486806,"date":"2026-02-20T04:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486806\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:05:10","slug":"man-dead-after-stabbing-outside-rideau-centre-thursday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486806\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after stabbing outside Rideau Centre Thursday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa police\u2019s homicide unit is investigating after a person was found with life-threatening injuries outside the Rideau Centre Thursday evening, and later died in hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders were called to the scene around 5:30 p.m., according to police. <\/p>\n<p>Ottawa paramedics say an adult male was stabbed outside the mall entrance, and was transported to hospital where he was in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they succumbed to their injuries shortly after.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One person has been taken into custody, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, and police say there is no risk to public safety.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Police standing in the middle of the street outside a mall.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771560310_614_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Ottawa police say one person is in custody.  (Emma Weller\/CBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-486806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}