Man stabbed to death Tuesday, days after welcoming new baby

A man killed in a reported double stabbing on Tuesday morning is being remembered as a quiet and loving father. His death came just days after welcoming a new baby.

A loved one, who asked to remain anonymous, says they don’t understand why he was taken from them.

“I think it was just misidentification. Somebody mistook him for somebody else.”

Kevin James Wescoupe, 41, died in hospital, after a stabbing in the 100 block of Austin Street North early Tuesday morning.

Police say when they arrived at around 1:15 a.m., they found two men – Wescoupe and another man – suffering from stab wounds.

Both were taken to hospital in critical and unstable condition, with Wescoupe succumbing to his injuries. The other man, a 38-year-old, was stabilized.

Wescoupe’s loved ones, devastated by the loss, are thinking of his children. The 41-year-old welcomed a new baby just three days before his death.

“Kevin is going to be remembered as a loving father and an awesome man who never caused any trouble. Never,” said Wescoupe’s loved ones.

“He was a really good man. He was awesome with his children. He was a loving father.”

Police have not made any arrests in the case.

Wescoupe’s family hopes those responsible, or those with information, come forward to police so they can get answers.

“There’s cameras all around here. There’s a camera on the church. There’s a camera on that house. There’s a camera on the housing, so hopefully they found somebody, or they saw something, and they can get the guy who did this, because Kevin didn’t deserve this.”

Donna Koss captured part of the emergency response on video.

“It was just a freak thing that happened,” explained Koss.

Calling the incident scary, she realised the gravity of the situation when paramedics were at the scene. She says her neighbour was a kind individual and also thinks what happened was a mistake.

“They brought Kevin out and they were working on him, doing CPR on him when they brought him out on the stretcher – out of the house – and I knew he had passed by then because you can just tell.”

Nearby neighbour Elaine Bishop, says while people will be quick to judge there is a lot of good happening in the community.

“There’s a lot of good things that go on in this community, it’s just we get the most attention when negative things happen,” explained Bishop.

Living in the North Point Douglas area for more than a decade, she stresses the issues putting people at risk are rooted far beyond the boundaries of the community.

“It’s very easy for people to end up dissing the North End, a lot of the challenges for the North End are created by structures outside of the North End.”