Stabbing investigation on Rideau Street

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 4, 2026      3:15 p.m.

(Ottawa) —The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) has charged a man in relation to a stabbing that occurred yesterday on Rideau Street.

Just before 11 a.m., the victim was on the sidewalk in the 300 block of Rideau Street when a suspect approached and stabbed them in what appears to have been an unprovoked attack.

The victim sustained serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.

The Central Investigations Section has charged Mohamed Elhilo, 57, with one count each of:

• Assault Cause Bodily Harm
• Assault with a Weapon
• Possess weapon dangerous
• Carry conceal weapon

He appeared in court today.

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