Police are investigating Vancouver's first homicide of 2019. Vancouver resident Matthew Dillen Johnson, 39, died Jan. 1 in an apartment on Powell Street near Gore Street in the Downtown Eastside, police say. Officers responded to an assault call at the apartment just after 8 p.m. PT and found a man in medical distress. The VPD's homicide unit is investigating. There were 15 homicides in the city in 2018, according to VPD spokesperson Jason Doucette.

Source: CBC News January 02, 2019 20:03 UTC