Staff at a subsidized housing building in the Downtown Eastside called police after seeing security footage of an altercation between two men that led to one man stabbing the other. The victim was then seen leaving the building, bleeding heavily, while the suspect returned to a room.

VPD officers arrested the suspect outside his room for aggravated assault and he was taken to jail.

The victim made his own way to hospital. He sustained a life-threatening chest wound, but is expected to survive.