1 dead after stabbing in Downtown Vancouver
Posted November 17, 2025 7:53 pm.
Last Updated November 18, 2025 6:37 pm.
Vancouver police say a man is dead after a stabbing downtown Monday afternoon.
The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) says officers responded to reports of a stabbing on Granville Street near Helmcken Street around 3:15 p.m.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO 1130 NEWSRADIO VANCOUVER’S LIVE TRAFFIC UPDATES“The victim, who is currently unidentified, died at hospital,” said a VPD statement Tuesday.
Police are still working on identifying the victim, as no identification was found on him.
“He did not have any identification on him. So we are working through our investigative process to identify him, and I’m confident we will identify him, but it’s just taking a little bit of extra time,” Sgt. Steve Addison
No arrests have been made related to the stabbing, and police say the death marks the city’s 25th homicide in 2025.
Addison told reporters that investigators were working through the night and are currently searching for a suspect.
“We have used a number of different investigators, investigative units, from our patrol investigators to our major crime investigators to our forensic identification team to gather that evidence that will ultimately lead us to the person who is responsible for this,” Addison told 1130 NewsRadio.
“But at this point, we still have more work to do.”
Even though the details are slim at this moment, investigators do not believe the attack was random.
“We have information to suggest that these two people, if they did not know each other, had some kind of prior interaction before,” Addison explained.
Drivers were advised to avoid the area, as police diverted traffic Monday.
Traffic cameras show that police left the scene around 8 p.m.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact VPD’s Major Crime Section at 604-717-2500.
Hospitality Vancouver Association expressed concern
Meanwhile, the Hospitality Vancouver Association (HVA) says it is concerned about the daylight homicide.
It called the situation in the area “dangerous and unsustainable.”
“It is increasingly clear that the BC Housing decision to locate over 300 SRO beds into a concentrated two-block stretch of Granville Street is a failed experiment,” the HVA said in a written statement.
It says that it has been advocating for the closure of the SRO for years and is welcoming the recent decision to close the 110-room Luugat sometime before the FIFA World Cup next year.
“Our organization believes that its current ongoing operations, along with two other highly problematic SROs located within two blocks of each other on Granville Street, are a real threat to public safety and need to be closed immediately,” the HVA added.
