Man charged with murder after death of Wray Musqua in April: Saskatoon police

A 38-year-old man is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of Wray Musqua in Saskatoon.

According to the Saskatoon Police Service, officers were called to the 2200 block of 22nd Street West for a report of an injured person at around 11 p.m. on April 24. When the officers arrived, they found Musqua, 55, unresponsive. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead on April 25.

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“Investigators have charged a 38-year-old man with Second Degree Murder,” the police force said in a statement issued on Thursday.

Police did not name the man.

Musqua’s death marked the city’s sixth homicide investigation of 2026, police noted.

Musqua remembered by family members

Bonnie Musqua said police told her that her brother was involved in an altercation where he was stabbed and injured. He then went across the street to a McDonald’s where he collapsed.

“He was stabbed in the heart,” Bonnie said.

“He would have fought for his life, basically, and that’s what he did.”

Bonnie said Musqua went straight into surgery, was in a coma and on lung support, but ultimately his body started to fail after losing too much blood.

“We were all praying when he took his last breath,” she said. “It was sad, but it was comforting to know that he went in prayer.”

Musqua, from Keeseekoose First Nation, was the second youngest of 11 siblings. Bonnie said he grew up in a traditional lifestyle with loving parents.

“When Wray was growing up, he was always so big, larger than life,” Bonnie said. “He was always so energetic, ever since he was a kid.”

“My dad used to say he could be a lawyer,” she said.

Diane Musqua said her little brother comes from a family of educators, teachers, social workers and a long line of chiefs.

“There were even hopes and dreams that maybe he would come home and be a leader,” she said. “That’s how intelligent he was.”

Musqua’s sisters said he was involved in traditional ceremonies, was protective over his loved ones and was a loving father to 15 children.

Bonnie said when Musqua was 14 he decided he was ready to go out and experience the real world.

“He was extremely smart and that’s probably why he survived out here in Saskatoon.”

Bonnie said her brother was drawn into a street lifestyle at a young age, and while he would return home, it became a struggle at times to keep him there.

His sisters noted he wasn’t always involved in the street lifestyle and said he was a hard worker and laborer, as well as a boxer.

“He’d get up in the morning and he’d go find a job,” Bonnie said.

“The people that he was around sometimes (had a) negative influence with gangs and stuff like that.”

Diane said because of this, her brother had been in and out of the jail system, noting “it’s a different lifestyle where you can’t just break free from it.”

“He was always loved, and we were always there for him,” Diane said. “We knew that this kind of situation or this kind of thing would take him, but it is still so traumatic for us.”

Diane said she hopes and desires that this type of street lifestyle ends with her brother’s story.

“It’s never too late to change your lifestyle, there’s always opportunity for you to change,” Diane said, noting there are resources available for addictions and trauma.

“Life is precious and our people can’t continue to go down and destroy each other,” Diane said.

“We want people to learn that he came from a loved family and we want our people to get healthy.”

Previous homicide investigations in 2026

The city’s first homicide investigation of 2026 was opened after a 25-year-old man with stab wounds 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 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 homicide investigation of the year saw a man die after a shooting in the 900 block of 22nd Street West on March 14. A 17-year-old boy was 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 case of the year was opened 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 homicide investigation of 2026 began when a 39-year-old man died in hospital after being found unresponsive on Avenue X South just before 4 a.m. on April 6. On June 9, police arrested 27-year-old Richard Cross at the Saskatoon Correctional Centre. Cross is facing charges of manslaughter, unlawful confinement, assault, assault causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon, uttering threats to cause death, aggravated assault and numerous weapons-related charges.

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 upgraded to a homicide, police said on April 27, making it the city’s fifth homicide investigation of the year. No arrests have been made.

The city’s seventh homicide case 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.

Saskatoon’s eighth homicide case of 2026 began on July 30 when 24-year-old Odell Angus died after being found injured in the 200 block of Avenue V South.

The ninth homicide case of this year was opened 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 investigation of the year was started on Sept. 26 when an injured man found near the intersection of 71st Street East and Lipsett Crescent died.

Police opened Saskatoon’s 11th homicide case of the year on Halloween, when a 21-year-old man was found dead in City Hall Square. No arrests have been made.

Saskatoon police opened eight homicide investigations in 2025.