WINNIPEG Winnipeg police have arrested and charged a second person in connection with a homicide investigation after a body was found in the Red River in October 2020. Police said 21-year-old Evan Daniel Bill Brightnose-Baker was arrested on a warrant for second-degree murder, in addition to three additional warrants, at a home in the William Whyte neighbourhood. The charge has not been proven in court. The arrest comes more than six months after the body of 29-year-old Mohamed Mohiadin Ahmed was found in the Red River. Police said a person had been walking their dog near Churchill Drive and Hay Street, when they found the body on Oct. 12, 2020.
Brightnose-Baker was arrested at a residence in the William Whyte neighbhourhood.
Previously, police arrested and charged Jesse James Daher, 28, of Winnipeg. He is also in custody and facing a second-degree murder charge.
At shortly after 8 a.m. on Oct. 12, 2020, officers were called to the area of Churchill Drive near the Manitoba Canoe and Kayak Centre after a passerby called to report a body in the Red River.
The next day police identified the victim as Mohamed Mohiadin Ahmed. A Winnipeg Police Service officer collects a drone after it was deployed on Churchill Drive in Winnipeg after the discovery of a body in the Red River on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. Photo by Kevin King /Winnipeg Sun
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Winnipeg police came out with a bigger fish than they were expecting to land Saturday after about an eight-hour ordeal on McGee Street. In addition to the two men they came for, police also collared a suspect in a homicide from last October who had been sought on a Canada-wide warrant.
Officers went to a residence in the 600 block of McGee near Wellington Street shortly after 11 a.m. to serve outstanding arrest warrants on a pair of 37-year-old males from Winnipeg.
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Winnipeg police say a second man is believed to be involved in the killing of a 29-year-old man whose body was found in the Red River last Thanksgiving.