Charges have now been laid in yesterday’s homicide on Vancouver’s west side.

Around 6:30 yesterday morning, police responded to the lobby of an apartment building on Balsam Street near West 41st Avenue after receiving a report of a fight. When police arrived, they found a man in the lobby who appeared to have been stabbed. He was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries.

The victim, 59-year-old Robert Brown Orr of Vancouver, died in hospital a short time later.

Shortly after 8 a.m., police arrested a 66-year-old Richmond resident in Coquitlam. Douglas Cameron Orr has been charged with second degree murder and has been held in custody pending his next appearance in Vancouver Provincial Court later today.

As the case is now before the courts, there is no further information to provide at this time.