British ColumbiaA 54-year-old Vancouver man has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of aggravated assault after two women were found dead in a Collingwood apartment Friday.54-year-old from Vancouver charged after stabbing victim leads police to nearby crime sceneCBC News · Posted: Sep 08, 2025 1:12 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 hours agoInvestigators work on a crime scene after an alleged double homicide and aggravated assault in Vancouver’s Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood Friday, Sept. 5, 2025. (Dillon Hodgin/CBC)A 54-year-old Vancouver man has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of aggravated assault after an incident in the Collingwood neighbourhood Friday.Police say Viet Quy John Ly remains in custody, according to a Vancouver Police Department (VPD) news release.VPD spokesperson Sgt. Steve Addison said police received a 911 call before 2 p.m. on Friday to a residential building near Vanness Avenue and Spencer Street in the Joyce-Collingwood area.”When our officers arrived, they discovered a woman who was very seriously injured from stab wounds,” Addison told CBC.”We believe that her injuries were initially sustained at another location,” he added.Vancouver Police Department Sgt. Steve Addison speaks about an alleged double homicide and aggravated assault in Vancouver’s Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood Sept. 5, 2025. (Dillon Hodgin/CBC)Police worked back to determine where she had been stabbed, and worked toward an apartment about two blocks away, at Joyce Street and Vanness, where they found two women dead and an injured man.Police found a “significant amount of blood around the crime scene” that helped locate the two victims, according to Addison.The injured man, identified by police as Ly, is believed to be the suspect in the homicides and the stabbing.Police are still working to identify the victims found dead.Addison said police understand the surviving assault victim had “some form of relationship” with Ly.”What that relationship is, the extent of that relationship, is something that we don’t fully understand at this point in the investigation, but certainly something that we’ll be exploring further,” Addison said.Police are asking anyone with information to call the Vancouver homicide unit at 604-717-2500.With files from Georgie Smyth
Man charged with killing 2 women, injuring another in East Vancouver
