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It s been a bloody month in Winnipeg, with 11 homicides in just 33 days.
It is a startling number, featuring a crime that is statistically rare, says a local criminologist with decades of experience in the justice system. You don’t get very consistent patterns, it can be all over the place, but often it will average out over a year, University of Winnipeg Prof. Michael Weinrath said Wednesday.
He pointed to month-long spates of deadly violence in 2019 as an example of the statistical phenomenon. That year, 44 people were killed in the city, its highest number on record.
Weinrath noted violent crime rates overall were much worse in Winnipeg when he began research 24 years ago. However, homicide rates have consistently gone up.
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Police investigate the scene of a shooting at Young and Westminster in Winnipeg. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
Myung Suk Kang was in her West Broadway convenience store when shots rang out; a bullet pierced the front window and hit the ice-cream freezer just feet away from the cramped counter.
Myung Suk Kang was in her West Broadway convenience store when shots rang out; a bullet pierced the front window and hit the ice-cream freezer just feet away from the cramped counter. My window shot, broken, Suk Kang said Tuesday as she talked about the brazen shooting of Kyle Anthony Braithwaite, 29, at Young and Balmoral streets around 3:45 p.m. Monday. Despite resuscitation efforts by two passersby, who were nurses, he died in hospital.
Posted: Jun 14, 2021 4:33 PM CT | Last Updated: June 15
Winnipeg police have cordoned off the area of Young and Balmoral streets, and a nearby school was locked down for a short period.(Trevor Brine/CBC)
A school was locked down for a short period of time, and police are asking people to avoid part of Winnipeg s West Broadway area after a man was shot.
Police tweeted at about 4 p.m. CT that numerous police units are in the area of Young and Balmoral streets.
They tweeted that a man was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound, but wouldn t give his condition.
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