REGINA — While the Regina Police Service remains silent on its investigation into the brutal assault of Dustin LaFortune — including the apparent search of a Regina apartment this week — a resident from the building claims to have information that further connects LaFortune to this city.

Dann McKenzie lives at 2158 Halifax St., the Regina General Hospital-area building police reportedly searched on Tuesday. While he didn't see or hear the search take place, McKenzie said he's heard plenty more during the past couple of months.

"There were so many strange noises coming from that apartment," he said. "I slammed on the roof and told him to shut up a couple of times and he came down and wanted to fight me once or twice even. Scary stuff. I complained about it multiple times even."

It was mid-March when McKenzie first met the man who'd moved into the apartment above his. But it wasn't until recently — when McKenzie saw a Facebook photo of the man LaFortune's family allege assaulted him — that McKenzie realized what might have been happening in the upstairs apartment.

"Everything starts clicking and all the tumblers and the little locks start fitting and you just realize that terrible things might have been going on right above me," he said.

McKenzie said he complained several times to his landlord, but not the police, when the noise continued over time.

"Initially it started off as a moan out here, every morning around nine or 10 in the morning, like a low, drawn-out moan," he said. "And I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. I thought maybe he had some creepy sexual habits. I mean, you're in an apartment. Sometimes noises get through.

"After that, I started hearing fighting and it was like one-sided fighting. I recognized (the upstairs neighbour's) voice and it was him screaming at the top of his voice, and then I heard thumping and stomping. The most twisted was I heard the yelling that went on when these hits were going on. I just heard things like . . . 'Open your eyes!'"

McKenzie said he never saw LaFortune, although he said he learned from the landlord that the upstairs apartment was rented out in LaFortune's name. McKenzie added that neighbours he'd talked to also weren't certain they'd ever seen the 26-year-old — although some said they'd seen a man who may have been LaFortune in and around the apartment.

McKenzie said he talked to numerous people about the noises upstairs, asking for advice on whether he should contact police. He said he remained uncertain about what was happening up there since he never heard anyone other than the neighbour he'd met — including in response to what sounded like violence.

He added the noises stopped sometime in early April, soon after the landlord responded to McKenzie's complaints by reportedly talking to the upstairs resident.

A woman who answered a telephone call to the landlord's residence said they'd been told by police not to discuss the matter.