Edmonton police have identified the city’s latest homicide victim as 23-year-old Manvir Singh Sidhu.
An autopsy confirmed Sidhu died from a gunshot wound and that the manner of death was homicide, police said in a news release Tuesday.
Sidhu was found lying on the ground on Crabapple Crescent in The Orchards at Ellerslie, just south of Summerside, around 7:35 p.m. on Jan. 21.
Southeast division patrol officers had responded to several 911 calls about gunshots. When they arrived they found paramedics tending to a young man. The victim was taken to hospital where he died.
Detectives continue to investigate the killing, the city’s fifth homicide of 2019.