A man once charged with pimping and beating his girlfriend was fatally attacked in broad daylight Thursday in the city’s second homicide.



Devon Labelle of Ottawa, 24, was found stabbed and bleeding out front of the Jean Coutu pharmacy on Montreal Road in Vanier just before 3:30 p.m.



Store employees had rushed to try and aid the dying man with paper towels to stop his bleeding. Labelle’s throat had been slit and when paramedics arrived, he had no vital signs. He was pronounced dead in hospital.



Police have not yet made any arrests in the killing, but believe a group of several people fled the scene and that the alleged murder weapon — a knife — was tossed at Carillon Park, one block away from the homicide scene.



Labelle was charged last year by the same force now tasked with solving his killing. In June 2016, human trafficking detectives charged Labelle, then 23, and two others after two women were assaulted one May evening at a Sandy Hill apartment.



Labelle was charged with pimping his girlfriend from February until the end of April, assaulting that same woman on May 25 at the Sandy Hill apartment and verbally threatening her in January. He was also charged with eight other counts of assault for allegedly beating her in December 2015, and in February, March and April of this year.



Labelle was also charged with physically assaulting the woman on April 16. Labelle had been in police custody after the charges were laid in June. It’s not yet known when he was released or what came of the charges against him.



Pierre Senatus, then 21, was also charged with gun-related offences in the May 2016 incident, including pointing a gun and carrying a concealed weapon. He also faces multiple assault charges, including sexual assault with a weapon, assault with a weapon and aggravated assault, as well as failure to comply with judicial release conditions.



Keisha Touzin, then 24, was also charged with aggravated assault for her alleged role in the May attack. Police alleged on May 24 Touzin did “wound, maim, disfigure or endanger” a woman’s life. She was previously released on a promise to appear in court.