RCMP Officers attend to the victim of a stabbing in downtown Yellowknife. The man was sent to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Arthur C. Green/The Moose
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Weekend stabbing in Yellowknife sends man to hospital

Arthur C. Green
By Arthur C. Green
One male victim has been taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a stabbing in downtown Yellowknife.

Police were called to Sunridge Apartments on 51A Avenue shortly after 12:30 p.m., where they located one person suffering from a stab wound.

Julie Plourde is the Media Relations Officer with the Northwest Territories RCMP  in Yellowknife, NT.

“At approximately 12:34 p.m., on Saturday, September 21, Yellowknife RCMP received a call for service regarding an alleged assault in the area of 51A Avenue, in downtown Yellowknife,” Plourde said. “A male victim received a non-life threatening injury and was transported to hospital. The investigation is ongoing.”
Anyone with information on suspicious activity is asked to call Yellowknife RCMP at 669-1111, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 nwtnutips.com, (click on “submit a web tip”) or text: “nwtnutips” plus your message to 274637.

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Arthur C. Green
Arthur C. Green
Arthur C. Green is from Whitbourne Newfoundland and graduated from the CNA Journalism Program. Arthur also studied Business Marketing and Political Science at Memorial University in Essex England and St. John's Newfoundland. Green has worked as a spot news photographer/journalist with such news organizations as CBC, CBC Radio, NTV, Saltwire and Postmedia in Alberta.

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