{"id":654546,"date":"2026-05-07T21:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654546\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:26:11","slug":"man-charged-woman-released-after-fatal-downtown-vancouver-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654546\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged, woman released after fatal downtown Vancouver stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BC Prosecution Service has charged a man with murder after a stabbing in the Downtown Eastside Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) said officers were called to the area of East Hastings and Columbia streets shortly after 2:30 a.m., where first responders found a man suffering from stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the victim, 49-year-old James Andrew Slater, was taken to hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the VPD said a man and a woman had been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>In an update Thursday, police said the man, a 27-year-old, had since been charged with one count of second-degree murder, and the woman was released and no longer considered a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The VPD says Wednesday\u2019s incident was the fourth homicide in the city since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 20, a 48-year-old man died of stabbing injuries in East Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>In Late March, police began investigating the suspicious death of a 21-year-old man in the Downtown Eastside on March 20 as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>And on April 24, a 36-year-old man died of his injuries after a stabbing in the Downtown Eastside.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the stabbing Wednesday is asked to call the VPD\u2019s Major Crime Section at 604-717-2500.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014With files from Emma Crawford<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=vancouver.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778189171_473_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BC Prosecution Service has charged a man with murder after a stabbing in the Downtown Eastside Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-654546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654546","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=654546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}