Five people were stabbed to death and a suspect arrested early Tuesday, at a party near the University of Calgary, Canadian police said.
All five victims — four men and one woman — appeared to be in their late teens or early 20s and had attended a “Bermuda shorts day party” late Monday at a house rented by university students, neighbors told cops.
A male suspect, in his 20s, was hunted down by police dogs and arrested about 40 minutes after the 1:20 a.m. stabbing Tuesday, authorities said. He was taken to the hospital to be treated for dog bites.
Three of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene while two others died later at the hospital, according to a Canadian Broadcast Corporation report.
The students were celebrating the end of their term and had lit a fire in the home’s backyard, neighbors told the CBC.
Despite the backyard blaze and celebratory mood, the party didn’t appear to be all that raucous before the violence broke out, neighbor Doug Jones told the network.
“When it started to get dark, they moved inside and once inside, you wouldn’t be able to tell there was anything really even going on,” said Jones, who spotted about 12 to 20 people at the party. “It wasn’t loud at all.”