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UPDATED STORY: Two men charged with second-degree murder in stabbing death of Issaiah Clachar

A 17-year-old male who moved to Ottawa in December from Cornwall is the city’s sixth homicide victim of 2015 after a multiple stabbing in Ottawa’s east end.

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Issaiah Clachar was stabbed to death early Sunday morning outside a highrise apartment at 2020 Jasmine Cr. — the same building where 18-year-old Connor Stevenson was killed in a drug-related stabbing in April.

Police said the incident was drug-related.

Paramedics arrived at the scene shortly after midnight. They found Clachar with multiple stab wounds. He later died of his injuries at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.

A 23-year-old man, whose name hasn’t been released, was also stabbed and taken to The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus, where he was listed in serious but stable condition.

Ottawa police Staff Sgt. Bruce Pirt said the man was being protected by police at the hospital. The man will be guarded “until we figure out where we’re at,” Pirt said. “If we deem there’s no real threat, we’ll pull the guard off.”