Suspect charged in 1st, non-fatal White Rock stabbing, IHIT says

A man has been charged in connection to the first of two stabbings near White Rock Pier last week, homicide investigators announced Tuesday.

A man has been charged in connection to the first of two stabbings near White Rock Pier last week, homicide investigators announced Tuesday.

Online court records associated with the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team's file number for the case show a man named Dimitri Nelson Hyacinth has been charged with one count of aggravated assault.

Hyacinth allegedly committed the offence in White Rock on April 21. That's the date of a stabbing near White Rock Pier that police said appeared to be unprovoked.

Homicide investigators have been looking into a fatal stabbing that occurred in the same area two days later, on April 23.

While the suspect description in each case was the same, police refused to say definitively that a single suspect was believed to be responsible for both attacks.

On Monday, IHIT confirmed a 28-year-old man had been arrested in connection to the homicide.

Court records show Hyacinth's year of birth as 1996, which would make him 27 or 28 years old this year.