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By Meghan Hurley

OTTAWA — An Ontario man who is alleged to have stabbed an intruder to death after a home invasion in Arnprior earlier this month, will not be charged.

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OPP investigators, in consultation with the Crown attorney’s office, determined that no charges will be laid against the homeowners.

Police responded to a call of a break and enter in progress at a home in Arnprior, some 100 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, at 12:20 a.m. on Sept. 11.When police arrived, they found Corey Blaskie, 41, unconscious. Blaskie was stabbed to death during an altercation with Nathan Woods and his son.

Meanwhile, neighbours of the Arnprior man said the former military officer involved in the altercation with Blaskie had had his home broken into several times last summer.

The man had installed an alarm system and lights on the side of his home and garage as a precaution, a neighbour said.

“I think he was pushed too far, you know? It wasn’t going to happen again,” said the neighbour, who didn’t want to be identified. “That was somebody in their house or in their yard. That’s the only reason this happened.”