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Man charged in fatal 2021 stabbing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Fernand Regimbal was the victim of a fatal stabbing at Vancouver's Hazelwood Hotel
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Police were called to an East Vancouver hotel for a fatal stabbing in December 2021.

The man recently charged in Vancouver’s 18th homicide of 2021 made his first Vancouver Provincial Court appearance on a second-degree murder charge Monday.

Kenneth Michael Desjarlais is charged in connection with the Dec. 22, 2021 stabbing death of Fernand Regimbal.

Police were called to the Hazelwood Hotel, near Hastings and Dunlevy streets, just after 9:30 a.m. that day for reports that a man had been stabbed outside the hotel.  

The 52-year-old victim was taken to hospital, where he later died from his injuries

The charge information was filed in court on Nov. 28.

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