Man charged with murdering man in Nova Scotia intimate partner violence case – Halifax [Video]

A 60-year-old man is now charged with second-degree murder after the death of an assault victim in Mill Village, N.S., in what police say was the result of intimate partner violence.

RCMP said they responded to a home on Highway 3 in the early morning hours of March 28.

“When officers arrived at the scene, they located a man with life-threatening injuries and learned that another man had left in a vehicle,” RCMP said in a release.

The victim — an 84-year-old man — was transported to hospital by EHS with stab wounds.

A few hours later, officers arrested the suspect at a home in Vogler’s Cove. Derek Dominix was initially charged with attempt to commit murder.

However, the victim died on April 11 in hospital and the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a homicide. The charge against Dominix was upgraded to second-degree murder and he is …