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An arrest was made early Wednesday morning in the fatal stabbing of Adrian Johnson outside the Shepherds of Good Hope Saturday, this newspaper has learned.
Police are expected to soon confirm that Damien Dubien has been arrested and will be charged with second-degree murder.
Johnson, a 45-year-old veteran of the streets of Lowertown, was pronounced dead in hospital around 5 a.m. Saturday, the city’s 13th homicide victim of the year.
“Somebody please help me,” witnesses outside the Murray Street shelter described Johnson pleading as he collapsed into the arms of a panhandler with a fatal knife wound in his chest.
One shelter resident said that Johnson died in “payback” for a drug deal gone bad.
But a former colleague at an Ottawa restaurant said that “in a life gone by,” Johnson had been “an ambitious, driven and generous human being” who attended local schools, played competitive sports and later supported his family as a head chef.
Johnson was among the people profiled in a recent report in this newspaper on the scourge of fentanyl on downtown streets.
“The fentanyl is here now; it’s in everything,” Johnson told a reporter, describing himself as someone suffering from addiction and mental health issues. “Things are changing in a severe way.”
On Saturday morning, an eyewitness said Johnson was negotiating a deal about a block from the shelter in a darkened cul-de-sac on Murray Street, between King Edward Avenue and Nelson Street.
Police were seen canvassing the cul-de-sac Saturday morning, and the crime scene was later extended from the doorstep of the Shepherds of Good Hope to include a two-block stretch of Murray Street, east of King Edward.
Police sources confirmed blood was found in the cul-de-sac.
Another woman said she was awakened around 4:30 a.m. by the sounds of a loud altercation, and looked out from her second-floor balcony at the corner of Murray and Nelson to see a group of at least three men fighting in the cul-de-sac.
Johnson had a lengthy criminal record and frequent run-ins with both police and rivals on the street, according to sources.
He faced drug charges from a December 2015 downtown drug sweep dubbed Project Freeze that netted 51 suspects, with police seizing cocaine, crack, MDMA, marijuana and powdered fentanyl through dozens of arrests.
In 2007, Johnson suffered a serious eye injury when he was sucker-punched and stabbed in the eye with the stem of a broken glass crack pipe during an argument over drugs outside a Murray Street shelter. Friends say the injury hampered him until the day of his death.
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Police are expected to soon confirm that Damien Dubien has been arrested and will be charged with second-degree murder.
Johnson, a 45-year-old veteran of the streets of Lowertown, was pronounced dead in hospital around 5 a.m. Saturday, the city’s 13th homicide victim of the year.
“Somebody please help me,” witnesses outside the Murray Street shelter described Johnson pleading as he collapsed into the arms of a panhandler with a fatal knife wound in his chest.
One shelter resident said that Johnson died in “payback” for a drug deal gone bad.
But a former colleague at an Ottawa restaurant said that “in a life gone by,” Johnson had been “an ambitious, driven and generous human being” who attended local schools, played competitive sports and later supported his family as a head chef.
Johnson was among the people profiled in a recent report in this newspaper on the scourge of fentanyl on downtown streets.
“The fentanyl is here now; it’s in everything,” Johnson told a reporter, describing himself as someone suffering from addiction and mental health issues. “Things are changing in a severe way.”
On Saturday morning, an eyewitness said Johnson was negotiating a deal about a block from the shelter in a darkened cul-de-sac on Murray Street, between King Edward Avenue and Nelson Street.
Police were seen canvassing the cul-de-sac Saturday morning, and the crime scene was later extended from the doorstep of the Shepherds of Good Hope to include a two-block stretch of Murray Street, east of King Edward.
Police sources confirmed blood was found in the cul-de-sac.
Another woman said she was awakened around 4:30 a.m. by the sounds of a loud altercation, and looked out from her second-floor balcony at the corner of Murray and Nelson to see a group of at least three men fighting in the cul-de-sac.
Johnson had a lengthy criminal record and frequent run-ins with both police and rivals on the street, according to sources.
He faced drug charges from a December 2015 downtown drug sweep dubbed Project Freeze that netted 51 suspects, with police seizing cocaine, crack, MDMA, marijuana and powdered fentanyl through dozens of arrests.
In 2007, Johnson suffered a serious eye injury when he was sucker-punched and stabbed in the eye with the stem of a broken glass crack pipe during an argument over drugs outside a Murray Street shelter. Friends say the injury hampered him until the day of his death.
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