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The death of a man in a home on Dewdney Avenue on Friday is now being investigated as a murder — the third in Regina in two days and the fourth in the city in 2020.
In a media release Monday afternoon, the Regina Police Service said the victim had been identified as Rodney Troy Ruberry, 49.
The police don’t have any suspects in Ruberry’s death.
On Friday, police responded to the 4400 block of Dewdney Avenue at about 3:20 p.m., for a report of a man who was in medical distress.
Officers arrived on the scene and called for paramedics, who transported the man to hospital. He was pronounced dead about an hour later.
Anyone with information that could help police in their investigation is asked to call the Regina Police Service at 306-777-6500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
“The Regina Police Service acknowledges it is unusual to have four homicides in any calendar month, and even more unusual that these homicides have all taken place in the first month of 2020 …,” police said in a media release.
“Through diligent, collective effort, police have made arrests and laid charges in two of these homicides, which has an immediate positive impact on public safety.”
Police added there isn’t any evidence that the four murders are connected.
Regina’s first murder of 2020 occurred Jan. 5, when the body of Keesha Cree Bitternose, 29, was found in the 1500 block of Cameron Street. No one has been charged in connection with Bitternose’s death.
The city’s second murder occurred Friday in the 500 block of Wascana Street. A 17-year-old has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 23-year-old Majok Majok.
Then, on Saturday, police found a critically injured Isiah Trent Allary, 24, in front of a home on Rae Street near Sixth Avenue. After Allary died, Devon Wayne Cyr, 25, was charged with first-degree murder.
