Police are investigating the city's 25th homicide of the year after the stabbing death of a man found fatally wounded in an alley off 118 Avenue early Friday morning. 

The man — found around 3 a.m. Friday — was covered with a tarp after officers were called to the scene near at 118 Avenue and 50 Street. Police set up pylons and cordoned the block off with police tape as they investigated later Friday morning.  

Police in a noon Friday press release said a male flagged down a passing police vehicle just before 3:30 a.m. to report that the male had been stabbed in a nearby alley.

Officers then found the injured man and called for EMS but he died on scene.

An autopsy was scheduled for Friday afternoon.