A 33-year-old man has been charged after a mother of three was struck and killed by a vehicle on Abinojii Mikanah Boulevard last September.
The man was charged April 21 with dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death and driving while disqualified, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release Sunday. He was released on an undertaking.
Police did not release the name of the accused.
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Omotayo Samuel-Pepple was struck and killed on Sept. 16, 2025 while waiting at a bus stop when an eastbound vehicle veered off Abinojii Mikanah near St. Mary’s Road. A man has now been charged in her death.
Omotayo Samuel-Pepple was struck on Sept. 16 while waiting at a bus stop when an eastbound vehicle veered off Abinojii Mikanah near St. Mary’s Road. The vehicle hit a guard rail and flipped. The driver remained on scene, police said.
Samuel-Pepple was rushed to hospital in critical condition but died two days later.
Her sister told the Free Press last fall the family had been given few details about what caused the collision.
“It’s been frustrating, shocking and sudden,” Mary Oloyede said at the time.
Samuel-Pepple, who was in her 40s, arrived in Winnipeg in January 2025 as an international student and was studying human resource management at the University of Manitoba.
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“She was just peaceful, easygoing,” Oloyede said of her older sister.
“Everyone who had an encounter with her would tell you she was a good person. She wasn’t the kind of person to make trouble. She was just a lovely person at heart. I am privileged to have her as a sister… the closest person to me.”
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Omotayo Samuel-Pepple, a mother of three, died last September.
Samuel-Pepple’s husband and three children, a 21-year-old daughter and two sons aged 17 and 14, all lived in Nigeria at the time of the crash.
Oloyede said her sister worked at one of the YMCA locations in the city and was on her way home when she was killed.
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