A 54-year-old man has been charged in the killing of two women and the stabbing of another woman at two residences in east Vancouver.

Vancouver police were called to a reported stabbing in the Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood at about 2 p.m. Friday.

A 50-year-old woman was found with life-threatening injuries in an apartment building near Vanness Avenue and Spencer Street.

Officers then found two women dead in a building about four blocks away near Joyce Street and Vanness.

A suspect was found with non-life-threatening injuries at the murder scene and was taken into custody .

On Sunday, VPD spokesman Sgt. Steve Addison said two counts of second-degree murder and one of aggravated assault have been approved against Viet Quy John Ly of Vancouver.

Ly is being held in custody and the in

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