A 66-year-old Richmond man has been arrested after his brother was stabbed to death at a Vancouver apartment early last Thursday morning.
Douglas Cameron Orr was arrested around 8 a.m. and later charged with the second-degree murder of Robert Brown Orr, 59.
About an hour earlier, police — called to the building on Balsam Street, near West 41st Avenue after receiving a report of a fight — found Robert Orr lying wounded in the lobby of the Kerrisdale apartment.
He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, but later died from those injuries.
Vancouver police Sgt. Randy Fincham said the suspect was arrested in Coquitlam.
This week, Robert Orr was being remembered as a selfless mentor and loving father of two.
“Robert was an unbelievable man. He first brought me in to the business that we're in three years ago and he did everything he could to help me," said his work colleague Etienne Moshevich.
“He was the type of man who would put everyone in front of himself. His heart was bigger than this world."
The slain man leaves behind a young son and daughter "that he adored more than anything," Moshevich said.
Douglas Orr made his first appearance on the murder charge in Vancouver provincial court Friday morning.
With a file from the Vancouver Sun
