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A 19-year-old is dead and an 18-year-old is facing charges of second-degree murder after a triple stabbing at the St. Laurent on Friday.

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Mohammed Osman, 18, has been charged with second-degree murder, two counts of aggravated assault and one count of violating parole. Sign up to receive daily news headlines from the Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. By clicking the subscribe button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc. | 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4 | 416-383-2300

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He was arrested by police overnight, the Ottawa Police Service said in a brief statement Saturday. Marcus Maloney, 19, was one of three men taken to hospital by paramedics. He was pronounced dead at the hospital on Friday. Two other men were hospitalized, but their injuries were not considered life-threatening. Police and emergency personnel were called to the mall at about 4:35 p.m. on Friday after witnesses reported a stabbing that injured three men. At least one video on social media appears to show a scuffle outside the Dollarama store at the mall involving at least six people, apparently teenagers or young men.

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The video does not show the start of the fight, but it captured images of one person on the ground with another person on top of him, while two others exchange blows. Two more join the fray, and four people then move to another corner, with three of them hitting the fourth. Messages sent by this newspaper to the poster of the video were not returned. The Ottawa Police Department’s homicide unit is investigating. Anyone with information is asked to call 613-236-1222, ext. 5493. Retailers at the mall said Saturday they were concerned about an increase in violence and petty theft in the late afternoon as schools let students out for the day. “It’s racing. They’re kids running around and shoplifting,” said Ally Quinones, manager of Giftz N’ Gagz, a store near the mall’s entrance at the OC Transpo station.

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Quinones said she wasn’t concerned for her own safety. There had been some thefts, but she had never faced a life-threatening situation and was able to keep young people out of her shop because it was a tobacco shop. But he said the problem would worsen in the late afternoon. “It’s getting bad,” he said. “We can keep the kids out of here if they’re under 18, but I’m worried about the other people.” After-school fights are a problem because teenagers apparently think that once they’re outside the mall, they won’t be stopped by security guards, said Dakota Elliott, who manages the Lidz store near the ground-floor entrance. the transit station. Fights often happen after school hours, but there’s rarely a problem on the weekends, he said.

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“There’s a fight that involves multiple kids at least once a week,” Elliott said. “Once they cross the road to the bus stop, they are safe from (mall) security. Once they leave the mall, there’s nothing we can do.” An OC Transpo driver at the transit station, who asked not to be identified, said she grew increasingly concerned about scammers refusing to pay their fares, engaging in violence and vandalizing buses, even with security cameras recording. A teenage girl told the driver she couldn’t pay the bus fare and then hit the driver on the arm hard enough to cause bruising. “There are no consequences if they damage the bus or don’t pay,” the driver said.

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