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       18-year-old charged with 1st-degree murder of teen's stabbing death
        
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       Ottawa police say they've laid a first-degree murder charge in the
       stabbing death of a high school student last week.
        
       On May 2, police were called to the 100 block of Constellation Drive
       in Nepean at around noon and found a teen in critical condition. The
       15-year-old, identified by police Tuesday as Ellis Smith, was taken to
       the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
        
       Over the weekend, a spokesperson for the Ottawa-Carleton District
       School Board said the victim, who had attended nearby Sir Guy Carleton
       Secondary School, had died.
        
       In an update on Tuesday evening, police said 18-year-old Ibrahim Ocal
       of Ottawa has been charged with first-degree murder, after originally
       being charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon.
        
       Police had previously not disclosed Ocal's name nor the charges he was
       facing.
        
       Ocal is appeared briefly in court Wednesday.
        
       Police are seen at the scene of the May 2 stabbing near the Mary Pitt
       Centre. (Safiyah Marhnouj/CBC)
        
        
        
        
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