Vancouver Police are investigating the city’s fourth homicide of this year after a man succumbed to injuries sustained in an alleged stabbing near East Hastings and Columbia Street.

 VPD officers responded to the area on Wednesday at 2:32 a.m. after witnesses called 9-1-1. The victim was transported to hospital where he later died.

 The victim has been identified as 49-year-old James Andrew Slater.

 A man and a woman have been arrested but no charges have been laid at this time.