Police identify victims in weekend homicides

Calgary police asked the public for help Wednesday as theynamed the two men who died in separateweekend homicides.

Gurjinder Singh Dhillon, 25, of Calgary was stabbed to death after a fight at the Little Beijing Caf at 2111 Centre St. N. early Saturday.

His family said he was out with his girlfriend and another couple when they stopped for a late-night meal. Dhillon and his friend got into an altercation with another group and were stabbed.

"He's the guy who's never been in any trouble before.," Harwinder Kang, a spokesman for Dhillon's family, told CBC News. "Idon't know why someone would do this to him."

The injured friend has been released from hospital, police said Wednesday. No one has been charged in the case.

Investigators asked that anyone who was at the restaurant between 3 a.m.and 4 a.m. on Saturday or anyone who was in the area and saw a vehicle speed away contact them.

Dhillon'sfriends have organized a soccer game in his honour on Thursday. His funeral is scheduled for Saturday.

Slain father worked as a carpenter

Homicide investigators are also seeking help in tracking the activities of Daniel Jacob Levesque, 29, before he was found dead in his townhouse in the 11400 block of Braniff Road S.W. on Sunday afternoon.

The medical examiner's office identified the Calgary man on Wednesday, but did not release his cause of death for investigative purposes.

"He was not known to police," said Calgary police spokesman Kevin Brookwell. "All indications are he was an employed, hard-working father in a common-law relationship, with no involvement whatsoever with the police at all."

Police said Levesque was believed to be with at least one other person in his home and that he may have gone to a liquor store sometime on Saturday.

A newspaper obituary saidLevesque, whowas born in Uranium City, Sask., and raised in Regina, Saskatoon and Calgary, was a skilled carpenter. Heleaves behind his wife and two children.

Levesque's death wasthe city's 17th homicide of the year.