Student dead, man charged with murder after alleged stabbing in Sarnia: police

Sarnia police say a 22-year-old international student is dead and a man has been charged with murder following an alleged stabbing over the weekend.A Sarnia Police Service logo is shown in a handout. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO

SARNIA, Ont. - Sarnia police say a 22-year-old international student is dead and a man has been charged with murder following an alleged stabbing over the weekend.聽

Police say they were called to a home in the city's west end for a report of a stabbing just before 5 a.m. on Sunday.聽

They say when officers arrived, they found a man dead and arrested one person. 聽

Police say they later determined that two residents of a rooming house had been involved in a physical altercation in the kitchen, which allegedly led to one of them using a knife to stab the other multiple times.

Police say they have identified the alleged victim as Gurasis Singh, an Indian citizen who was studying business at Lambton College. 聽

Lambton College says in a statement that school officials are in touch with Singh's family and are working with them on funeral arrangements and repatriation.

Police say a 36-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder.聽

They say investigators are still working to identify the circumstances surrounding the alleged murder and say they do not believe it was racially motivated at this time.

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