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Post by Sher on May 9, 2005 8:14:07 GMT -5
WINNIPEG -- A silly prank of tossing candy out the window cost four Winnipeg youths dear.
While in a McDonald's drive-through Saturday, four 17-year-olds started throwing candy at the vehicle in front of them. They were then chased by two vehicles until one of the vehicles caught up to them.
When the victims lost control of their vehicle and crashed, four suspects assaulted them and stole their wallets. Three of the youths were treated and released, while the fourth remains in hospital with more serious injuries.
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Post by Sher on May 24, 2005 12:54:06 GMT -5
WINNIPEG -- A 10-year-old boy who was chased by three kids and set on fire with lighter fluid said yesterday he is afraid to leave hospital and go home.
"I don't want to be jumped like that again," Kasey Richard said in an interview from his wheelchair outside Children's Hospital.
Kasey suffered second-degree burns to his right leg in the attack on Saturday. His parents, Pearl Thompson and John Richard, said their son may be released from hospital later this week.
Police have charged a 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy with aggravated assault and uttering threats. An 11-year-old boy was also arrested, but he is too young to be charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Kasey said he knew the suspects, but doesn't really know why they attacked him.
Police say three youths were playing with lighter fluid when Kasey and two other boys, aged 9 and 11, walked over to see what they were doing.
The boys were asked if they wished to participate, but they declined and started to walk away.
The youths then chased the boys and caught Kasey, holding the Grade 5 student down while spraying his shoes and pants with lighter fluid.
The female suspect lit the lighter fluid and Kasey's shoes and pants immediately caught fire, she said.
"I screamed and told her not to do it," Kasey said. He said he rolled on the grass to help put out the flames, then his friends carried him to another home.
"I don't recall another incident of children using that level of violence against other children," said Const. Shelly Glover.
The suspects were arrested and detained in the Manitoba Youth Centre, while the 11-year-old was handed over to his parents.
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Post by Sher on May 24, 2005 13:02:03 GMT -5
WINNIPEG -- A grandmother allegedly set fire to her Agnes Street home in Winnipeg Sunday night after waking up and realizing her three-year-old grandson was missing.
The grandmother had reportedly fallen asleep while babysitting the little boy at her home in the 500 block of Agnes Street. When she awoke shortly before 11 p.m., she discovered the child was missing and called police.
Distraught over the missing child, she allegedly ignited a fire inside her home in an attempt to harm herself, said police.
Cops rushed to the home to investigate the report of a missing child, but when they saw smoke coming from the house they immediately entered the burning home and forced the woman outside.
She was unco-operative and struggled with police to stay inside the burning home, said police spokesman patrol Sgt. Shelly Glover.
Once outside, police learned the woman was unsure whether the child was inside the home. They re-entered the smoke-filled burning house to search for the tot. The thick smoke forced the officers back outside a short while later.
Fire crews arrived at the scene and put the blaze out.
Police later learned relatives had taken the three-year-old child out of the home earlier while the grandmother slept.
Vida Bear, 40, has been charged with arson and damage to property.
She is being held at the Winnipeg Remand Centre.
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Post by Sher on May 24, 2005 13:06:35 GMT -5
WINNIPEG -- At least 200 old cars burned yesterday after a fire broke out in an auto scrapyard just outside of Winnipeg.
Rural fire crews were called to a blaze in the yard of Bucks Auto Parts when an employee and a customer noticed smoke billowing from a stack of used cars.
The fire quickly spread to other stacks, where cars were piled at least six vehicles high.
By the time the fire was out, some 200 cars were damaged or destroyed, resulting in minor explosions in cases where the cars still had gas in the tanks.
Due to potential safety risks posed by the burning plastic and rubber, employees at several nearby business were told to leave the area, said Rick Vandekerkhove, spokesman for the Office of the Fire Commissioner.
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Post by Sher on Jun 14, 2005 9:06:40 GMT -5
WINNIPEG -- A city police officer has denied charges he possessed child porn and unsafely stored guns.
Sgt. John Scott Allingham has been suspended with pay since his February 2002 arrest.
Three members of a joint city police-RCMP child exploitation unit yesterday testified a June 2001 raid on Allingham's home found 20 child porn images on five diskettes as well as unspecified firearms.
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Post by Sher on Aug 22, 2005 13:47:05 GMT -5
WINNIPEG -- Police have charged a 15-year-old boy with second-degree murder in Winnipeg after another boy the same age was apparently found beaten outside a home.
The victim was pronounced dead after being rushed to hospital early Saturday morning.
Police say they found the victim when they responded to a call about an assault.
The name of the victim had not been released.
Police were also looking for two other males on Sunday - one 17 and another 18 - in connection with the incident.
The murder is Winnipeg's 17th of the year.
Police said they did not believe the victim was a resident of the Alfred Avenue house, adding that there was nothing to indicate the incident was gang-related.
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Post by Sher on Nov 9, 2005 8:17:39 GMT -5
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. -- A Manitoba man killed his girlfriend's baby, then hanged himself, say RCMP.
Police found the bodies of 21-month-old Paige Merrick and Gabriel Smoke, 26, inside a home in the city, 70 km west of Winnipeg.
An autopsy on the toddler "determined that she died as a result of internal blood loss, which was caused by severe blunt force trauma to her abdomen," said RCMP Sgt. Steve Colwell.
"The RCMP believe that Gabriel Smoke killed Paige Merrick and then took his own life."
Smoke had been in a common-law relationship with the girl's mother since the summer, Colwell said.
The mother was the one who found the bodies Monday and called police.
The deaths have left the families of the victims wondering how something like this could happen.
"It's just so terrible. It's something that's hard to take in right now. It's hard to believe," said Violet Merrick, the girl's grandmother.
"Right now we're just trying to hold together."
Merrick's son, Terry, 22, is Paige's father, and was too shaken up to talk yesterday.
"He's kind of still in shock, and he's angry," she said.
Faith Smoke said she didn't think of her brother as the type to take his own life.
Several of Smoke's family members gathered in a home on the tiny Dakota Plains First Nation 30 kilometres southwest of Portage la Prarie, where Smoke was brought up.
"He was trying to be somebody someday," Faith said, adding he was going to school for upgrading to graduate from high school.
Smoke has a nine-year-old daughter and twin four-year-old sons, his sister said.
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