18-year-old dead after stabbing at Calgary basketball court

Calgary police have identified the young man who they say was stabbed at a southeast athletic park. 

Calgary police were called to a basketball court on Copperstone Road S.E. at about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday for reports of an assault with a weapon. 

Officers found one man with what appeared to be stab wounds, police said in a release. He was taken to hospital in life-threatening condition where he later died. 

In a media release Wednesday, police said the victim and two friends were at the basketball court when two unknown individuals approached them. A brief altercation between the two groups ensued. 

Police said the victim was sprayed with bear spray and stabbed twice by the suspects, who fled the scene and remain at large. 

Police said an autopsy was completed and the victim has been identified as Calgarian Danillo Canales Glenn, 18. 

Police said the two suspects are both between 16 and 18 years old and both are about five feet eight inches tall. 

They said one was wearing a navy blue zip-up hoodie with a thin black stripe, black pants, and black shoes. The other was last seen wearing a light grey zip-up hoodie with a thin black line across the chest to the back, black jeans, black shoes, and a rectangular Gucci fanny pack worn across his chest, police said. 

"A young man has lost his life, and several people who were present at the time of the incident have been left traumatized by this senseless confrontation," said Staff Sgt. Brad Moore of the Calgary Police Service Homicide Unit in a media release. 

"We recognize that the community of Copperfield is shaken by this incident, and many are concerned for their safety as the suspects remain at large. Please know that we have determined this to be an isolated matter and there is no risk to the public."

Police said this is the city's 13th homicide of 2023.