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Ottawa police have arrested one man in connection with his adult son’s fatal stabbing Tuesday evening.

John McRae, 70, is in police custody. He is expected to be charged this afternoon.

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Major crime detectives are investigating the stabbing of the 51-year-old at an Orléans apartment building. It was the city’s fourth homicide of the year.

First responders received a 911 call to 6632 Notre Dame St. around 6:44 p.m. for a man with lacerations to his body. The man suffered multiple stab wounds and was unresponsive.

Alyssa Kretzul, who lives on the third floor of the building, told the Citizen she and her father heard arguing coming from a first-floor apartment earlier Tuesday afternoon.

“We let our landlords know that we heard some screaming and swearing going back and forth, threatening each other.”

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Kretzul said she had heard arguing coming from the apartment before.

Hours later, she saw paramedics and a swarm of police officers at the building. Police led one man away in handcuffs, and another was taken away in an ambulance.

Both father and son lived together in the building for what’s believed to be less than a year.

With files from Mike Carroccetto

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