{"id":480372,"date":"2026-02-17T09:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480372\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:23:32","slug":"police-charge-man-with-manslaughter-after-winnipeg-house-fire-kills-one-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480372\/","title":{"rendered":"Police charge man with manslaughter after Winnipeg house fire kills one \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 Winnipeg police have charged a man with manslaughter after a fire at a home that killed one and sent others to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews were called Thursday to a two-and-a-half-storey home in the city\u2019s West Broadway neighbourhood, where they had to rescue one person.<\/p>\n<p>Others were able to get out on their own.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69937d55884a5c2cd28600cdjpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"3000\" data-pswp-height=\"1844\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69937d55884a5c2cd28600cdjpeg.jpg\" alt=\"A Winnipeg Police Service shoulder patch is seen in Winnipeg, Sept. 2, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/David Lipnowski\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA Winnipeg Police Service shoulder patch is seen in Winnipeg, Sept. 2, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/David Lipnowski<\/p>\n<p>A firefighter and one person from the home were taken to hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Another person in the home, 68-year-old Gregory George Thomas, was brought to hospital in critical condition and later died.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the fire was set on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Patrick Gordon, who is 40, faces one count of manslaughter and two counts of arson and has been detained in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 Winnipeg police have charged a man with manslaughter after a fire at a home that killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-480372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}