Toronto police say the city’s latest homicide victim is a man from Angus.

Police identified the victim as 54 year-old David Blacquiere on Wednesday.

According to police, Blacquiere was found in critical condition after officers responded to a stabbing call outside a Shopper’s Drug Mart on Weston Road, north of Lawrence Avenue, shortly before noon Tuesday.

He was rushed to a trauma centre, but died there a short time later.

“He was a very good father.  We all loved and respected him very much,” said his daughter Shanna Blacquiere in a statement to CTV News Barrie.

“It breaks my heart because he has children. I spoke to him on Tuesday,” said friend Fred Macpherson.

He remembers him as a “hockey loving Canadian.”

“He was a great guy, a hard-working iron worker. He was the type of guy you didn’t have to figure out how he felt about something. He stuck up for himself and it looks like he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Macpherson told CTV News Toronto.

Witnesses said there was an altercation prior to the stabbing, but police have not described a possible motive so far.

While police have not identified the alleged stabber, Det. Robert North said they have identified a man wanted for allegedly assisting the stabber flee the scene while speaking at a news conference on Wednesday evening.

Demetrius McFarquhar is wanted on charges of accessory after the fact of murder, attempting to obstruct justice and failing to comply with his recognizance.

“We are alleging in the charges against McFarquhar that he assisted our offender in fleeing the scene of a homicide at 1995 Weston Road,” North said. “As well, he assisted him in fleeing a secondary scene which we located as 2222 Weston Road.”

“We are not allegeding that McFarquhar is our stabber.”

Police have released a suspect description for the alleged stabber as a black male in his late 20s or early 30s. He stands around five-foot-eleven, with a slim build and long curly hair. He was wearing all black clothing and a black toque.

North said it is not known if the suspects and victim were known to each other prior to the incident.

- With files from CTV Toronto