The 18-year-old man charged in HRM’s first homicide of 2012 will appear in court on Monday.

Aidan David Cromwell is charged with second-degree murder and two counts of breach of recognizance.

At 11:20 p.m. on Thursday, Halifax police were called to Alma Crescent in Fairview. They found 25-year-old Marc Bernard Tremblay of Halifax lying at the corner of Ashdale Avenue and Titus Street. He had been stabbed.

Paramedics pronounced him dead shortly after arriving on the scene.

Police scoured the area and a K-9 unit was called in to track for suspects, but no one was located.

A few hours later ‘ at 2 a.m. on Friday ‘ police arrested a man and woman at a residence on Evans Avenue and took them in for questioning.

The woman was released, but Cromwell was kept in custody and charged with murder later in the day.