The man who died in a fatal stabbing in Lac La Biche Sunday has been identified as 28-year-old Jason Ward.

The death has now been ruled a homicide after an autopsy on Tuesday.

RCMP were called Sunday morning to a rural home south of Lac La Biche where they found a man with stab wounds along with four other people.

Ward was airlifted to an Edmonton hospital where he died later in the day. The investigation is continuing.