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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.
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Police investigate the scene of a shooting at Young and Balmoral streets in West Broadway Monday. Mikaela Mackenize / Winnipeg Free Press
Two passersby, who happened to be nurses, rushed to perform CPR on a man who had been shot in the back near a girls school in West Broadway Monday afternoon.
Two passersby, who happened to be nurses, rushed to perform CPR on a man who had been shot in the back near a girls school in West Broadway Monday afternoon.
A witness who lives in the area said he heard at least four shots ring out.
WINNIPEG The Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) is responding to a shooting in the West Broadway neighbourhood, and are asking the public to avoid the area. WPS posted on Twitter that multiple police officers were in the area of Balmoral Street and Young Street. Police said officers received a report that a man had been shot, and responded to the scene at 3:45 p.m. Balmoral Hall School is in lock-down. ALL STUDENTS AND STAFF ARE SAFE. Parents will not be able to pick up students for the near future. Winnipeg Police (@wpgpolice) June 14, 2021 Police said Balmoral Hall School was temporarily in lockdown, adding all the students and staff are safe. Parents are able to safely pick up students by taking Westminster Avenue directly to the front parking lot.