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Nearly two months after 24-year-old Odell Angus was fatally shot in Saskatoon’s Pleasant Hill neighbourhood, his family is still searching for answers.
According to police, officers responded to a report of an injured person in the 200 block of Avenue V South around 6:45 p.m. on July 30.
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Angus was taken to hospital, where he later died.
Larissa Angus and her sister Laquita Angus said their little brother was always there for the family. He was a loving father of three and a devoted uncle.
“The kids miss him,” Larissa said. “Every time they hear someone walk into the door, they always say ‘uncle’, but it’s not him.”
Odell’s sisters described him as a loving person who enjoyed working on vehicles.
“All we had was him, and now it’s just me and my sister,” Larissa said.
“It’s hard every day for me (and) my sister to go on day by day and not knowing what happened to him.”
Larissa said on July 30 someone they knew told them their brother had been injured just a block away from where she lived. Both sisters ran to the area and reached the scene where their brother had been shot and killed.
“I was really panicking; I was really scared,” she said.
Odell’s sisters said they want him to be remembered as a big-hearted, caring person who would help anyone in need. They say he was respectful, generous, and always tried to “make things right” with people.
His mother Lori-Anne Angus said it is hard to believe that she wakes up every day without her son.
“He was my baby and my everything.
“No mother ever wants to go through this, and (he was) only 24,” she said, noting she believes her son was “at the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Lori-Anne said not a day went by without getting a call from her son to tell her good morning.
“That’s why I’m so broken,” she said.
Odell’s family is calling on anyone who may have seen or heard something the day Odell died or may have video footage around the area to reach out to investigators.
So far no arrests have been made in connection with his death, which was the eighth homicide investigation of 2026 in Saskatoon.
Previous homicide investigations in 2026
The first homicide of 2026 was a 25-year-old man with stab wounds who died at St Paul’s Hospital on Feb. 3. An 18-year-old man was charged with manslaughter and aggravated assault on Feb. 7. His charges were later downgraded on Feb. 27 to being an accessory after the fact to manslaughter, accessory after the fact to aggravated assault, public mischief and obstruction of justice.
The second killing saw a man die after a shooting in the 900 block of 22nd Street West on March 14. A 17-year-old boy was then charged on March 17 with second-degree murder, using a firearm while committing an indictable offence and possessing a firearm while prohibited.
The city’s third homicide was investigated after a 61-year-old woman died in a house fire in the 400 block of Avenue I South on April 3. No arrests have been made.
The fourth killing was a 39-year-old man who died in hospital after being found unresponsive on Avenue X South just before 4 a.m. on April 6. Police have made no arrests.
A suspicious death investigation after Saskatoon police found a body in an apartment on the 1100 block of Avenue W North on April 15, was then upgraded to a homicide, police said on April 27, making it the city’s fifth murder of the year. No arrests have been made.
Saskatoon Police Service said the death of 55-year-old Wray Musqua, who was found unresponsive in 2200 block of 22nd Street on April 24 and died in hospital on April 25 was the city’s sixth homicide.
The city’s seventh murder of the year saw a 42-year-old woman charged with second-degree murder after the body of 77-year-old Dory Cook was found inside a Pleasant Hill home on May 3.
Odell Angus was Saskatoon’s eighth homicide, while the ninth was recorded on Aug. 11 after police officers found a man’s body on Aug. 13 while conducting a welfare check at an apartment on 17th Street West.
The 10th homicide of the year was on Sept. 26 when an injured man found near the intersection of 71st Street East and Lipsett Crescent died.
Saskatoon had eight homicides in 2025.
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