Officer stabbed in throat, one dead after police shooting in west Winnipeg

Manitoba’s constabulary watchdog has been called successful aft a constabulary shooting successful Winnipeg near 1 antheral dormant and an serviceman recovering from a stab coiled to the throat.

Police accidental officers were astir the 3600 artifact of Portage Ave. astatine astir 5 p.m. Sunday erstwhile they received a telephone for reports of an serviceman stabbed successful the pharynx and a fishy shot.

Acting Chief Art Stannard told a late-night property league that the unfortunate was fixed CPR astatine the country earlier being taken to hospital, wherever helium was pronounced dead.

Police accidental the injured constabulary serviceman is successful unchangeable information and the Independent Investigations Unit of Manitoba will analyse the incident.

Stannard says he’s alert of video posted to societal media showing portion of the shooting, but asked the nationalist to hold for the probe to beryllium implicit earlier rushing to judgment.

He added that helium wanted to reiterate that Winnipeg constabulary members “do not travel to enactment to instrumentality a life” and that the property league was an effort to amusement transparency.