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Man dies after stabbing

Police investigate violent domestic dispute

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 02/20/2011 1:00 AM

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Police officers guard the entrance to suite on the seventh floor of 357 Kennedy St. Saturday afternoon after a domestic dispute Friday night ended in a manslaughter charge.

ONE stab to the chest with a kitchen knife killed a Garden Hill man in Winnipeg Friday evening.

Orzias Joram Knott, 34, died after a small gathering in his wife's apartment in a Manitoba Housing tower on Kennedy Street turned into a violent domestic dispute.

Police say Knott was hanging out and possibly drinking with friends and family at his wife's apartment at about 5:30 p.m. when he got into an argument with his wife. Things escalated, and Knott was stabbed once in the upper body with a steak or kitchen knife.

A security guard in the building helped Knott and paramedics rushed him to the hospital in critical condition, where he died.

Police identification experts were still working in the seventh-floor apartment Saturday afternoon. Few neighbours were home and even fewer said they heard or saw anything unusual before police and paramedics arrived.

Norman Parker, now retired from the military, said the building is often the scene of trouble since many of the residents have mental health issues or struggle with addictions. He called the building "a cesspool."

Police have charged Casandra Lydia Knott, 27, of Winnipeg, with manslaughter. She remains at the remand centre.

"It's a huge loss," said Jack Harper, a band councillor in Garden Hill.

Knott was born and grew up in Garden Hill, a remote reserve directly east of the northern basin of Lake Winnipeg. Harper didn't know when he moved to Winnipeg. Knott returned frequently to Garden Hill to visit family, and to hunt and fish.

Knott and his wife did not have children, Harper said.

"He's a friendly guy. He cares for children," the councillor said.

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition February 20, 2011 A6

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