A 30-year-old man is dead after a stabbing in downtown Hamilton early Saturday morning.

At 3:12 a.m., police received a call about a stabbing near the intersection of King Street West and Caroline Street, said Staff Sgt. Andrew Dunlop of the Hamilton Police Service.

Emergency crews found the victim without vital signs lying in a Tim Hortons parking lot, said James Summers, a spokesman for the Hamilton Paramedic Service.

Summers said the man was "stabbed to the left side of his chest." 

Paramedics transported the man to Hamilton General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. 

The Hamilton police's homicide unit is investigating the fatal stabbing.

The same parking lot was the site of another deadly stabbing earlier this year. On Sept. 15, a 18-year-old man died after being stabbed in the parking lot of the Tim Hortons on King Street near Caroline, situated just east of Hess Village. 

A 49-year-old Hamilton man has been charged with first-degree murder in the September killing.