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Calgary police have arrested and charged a man in the fatal stabbing of a Calgary man in the city’s downtown last weekend.

Kyle Stanley James Bearhat, 26, of Calgary, was taken into custody and charged with manslaughter in the death of Craig Cutter, 24.

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Police announced Bearhat was wanted early Friday afternoon, only to pick him up hours later at a Huntington Hills residence.

Acting Staff Sgt. Mike Cavilla said the pair were known to each other.

“Bearhat and Cutter are known to each other (as) loose associates … from knowing each other both where they are from and from the shelters downtown,” he said.

Bearhat is also known to police, he added.

Police originally suspected Cutter was stabbed during a fight involving as many as 10 people that occurred in the early morning hours of May 27 around the 200 block of 15th Avenue S.E.

But investigators now believe that Cutter was stabbed during a separate fight in that same area. Cutter was taken to the hospital, where he later died.

Cavilla said there was no indication of links to organized crime and it wasn’t a random attack.

While they don’t have CCTV footage of the fight, they have video recordings of events leading up to it. Alongside that, Cavilla said they were able to track down witnesses who helped piece everything together.

“Investigators have pulled quite a bit of CCTV footage and reviewed it,” said Cavilla.

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