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As homicide detectives investigate a man’s death in the Beltline, a city councillor says the downtown neighbourhood has become increasingly safer.

Paramedics were called to the alley behind Safeway on 12th Avenue S.W. at about 11:20 p.m. Sunday following reports a man had been assaulted in a fight.

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The victim was found dead at the scene.

Police tape continued to cordon off the scene Monday morning, with dozens of evidence markers scattered across the alley. A pool of blood could be seen on the pavement.

If the man’s death is classified a homicide, it would be the Beltline’s second in the past few months.

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Mustafe Mohamud Hussein was in a coma for a month after he was seriously injured in a fight in the 100 block of 10th Avenue S.E. on the morning of July 3. He was taken off life support on Aug. 5.

Fuad Yasir Ali, a 28-year-old Calgary man, has been charged with second-degree murder.

In the first eight months of the year, police responded to 156 non-domestic assaults in the Beltline, a nearly 10 per cent increase over the same period last year. Police data show a steady increase of these crimes during the same period in each of the past three years.