{"id":864300,"date":"2026-08-19T23:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864300\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T23:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:28:08","slug":"man-charged-with-2nd-degree-murder-in-2025-vancouver-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864300\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with 2nd-degree murder in 2025 Vancouver homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Man charged with 2nd-degree murder in 2025 Vancouver homicide<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 1:50 pm Wednesday, August 19, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    By Lauren Collins\/Black Press\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>A man has been charged with second-degree murder nine months after a fatal stabbing in Vancouver. <\/p>\n<p>James Christopher Holmgren, 35, was arrested Tuesday (Aug. 18) by Vancouver homicide detectives, Vancouver Police Department announced Wednesday. He was charged by Crown counsel with second-degree murder. <\/p>\n<p>Vancouver police were called to the area of Granville and Helmcken streets on <a href=\"https:\/\/abbynews.com\/2025\/11\/18\/1-dead-after-stabbing-on-vancouvers-granville-street-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Nov. 17, 2025<\/a> for reports of a man suffering from a stab wound. <\/p>\n<p>The victim, 20-year-old Aymen Al-Hafidh, was transported to hospital where he was pronounced deceased. <\/p>\n<p>Police say Holmgren remains in custody. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man charged with 2nd-degree murder in 2025 Vancouver homicide Published 1:50 pm Wednesday, August 19, 2026 By Lauren&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-864300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864300","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=864300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}