{"id":492996,"date":"2026-02-23T00:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492996\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:14:07","slug":"man-facing-charges-after-child-struck-with-baseball-bat-at-winnipeg-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492996\/","title":{"rendered":"Man facing charges after child struck with baseball bat at Winnipeg store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A man is facing several charges after a child was struck with a baseball bat and a man on a bus was assaulted in Winnipeg&#8217;s Unicity neighbourhood on Saturday, Winnipeg police say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man, 27, was on a transit bus parked on Portage Avenue, between Bedson Street and Buchanan Boulevard, when he approached and assaulted a 66-year-old man without provocation around 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, police said in a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said the man wasn&#8217;t injured in the attack, and the driver ordered the suspect off the bus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man then entered a retail store in the same block where he used a baseball bat he found there to assault a school-aged child, according to the release. Police said the man continued to hit the child until the father intervened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said the man fled the store while staff contacted police.<\/p>\n<p>The child was taken to hospital in stable condition and treated for injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just before 12:10 p.m., the suspect went to a nearby collision repair centre, where police say he stole the keys to a customer&#8217;s vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Staff called police and the man was arrested without incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has been charged with aggravated assault, assault, and theft under $5,000, police say. He was detained in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect did not know either of the people he is charged with assaulting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>More from CBC Manitoba: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-492996","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\/492996","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=492996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}