{"id":157274,"date":"2026-08-05T23:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/157274\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T23:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:11:17","slug":"male-victim-critical-ottawa-police-investigating-two-aug-4-stabbings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/157274\/","title":{"rendered":"Male victim critical; Ottawa police investigating two Aug. 4 stabbings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ottawa police are now investigating two stabbings that occurred on the same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A male victim was taken to hospital in critical condition on the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 4, after a stabbing in the downtown Rideau area, police stated in a news release Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was located near the intersection of Daly Avenue and Nicholas Street, police said, but few other details were released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No one was in custody Tuesday night, but the Ottawa Police Service said there was no known threat to public safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Tuesday morning, a <a data-ylk=\"slk:man had been taken to hospital;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/ottawa-man-hospitalized-centretown-stabbing\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">man had been taken to hospital<\/a> after suffering serious but non-life-threatening injuries from a stabbing that happened in a busy stretch of Centretown, paramedics said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">First responders had been called to the scene near McLeod and Bank streets at 9:45 a.m., Ottawa Paramedic Service spokesperson Marc-Antoine Deschamps said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation was ongoing as of Tuesday evening, police had said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the release about the second stabbing, police asked anyone with information about the incident to contact the Central Investigations Section at 613-236-1222, extension 5166. Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-222-8477 or crimestoppers.ca.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u2014 With files from Abyssinia Abebe<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Take control of your search results.\u00a0<a data-ylk=\"slk:Make the Ottawa Citizen a preferred source;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=ottawacitizen.com\" class=\"x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Make the Ottawa Citizen a preferred source<\/a>\u00a0on Google and see verified local reporting first.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa police are now investigating two stabbings that occurred on the same day. A male victim was taken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5740,61,615],"class_list":["post-157274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-critical-condition","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-police-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}