{"id":624011,"date":"2026-04-23T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624011\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:14:09","slug":"boy-accused-of-bringing-handgun-knives-to-rural-manitoba-school-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624011\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy accused of bringing handgun, knives to rural Manitoba school \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG \u2013 A teen is facing weapons charges after police allege he brought a handgun, ammunition and knives to a school in southern Manitoba.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were told Wednesday morning that a youth had a firearm and was heading to the school in a small community south of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP say staff located the boy on school property and he handed over the weapons without any force.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69ea640f4a9725848f6a5830jpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"4692\" data-pswp-height=\"3128\"><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\/04\/69ea640f4a9725848f6a5830jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Manitoba RCMP headquarters in Winnipeg, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. 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\tManitoba RCMP headquarters in Winnipeg, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/David Lipnowski<\/p>\n<p>Police seized an unloaded handgun, a loaded magazine, additional loose ammunition and knives.<\/p>\n<p>The boy is facing several charges, including possession of a weapon for dangerous purposes, unauthorized possession of a firearm and possession of a weapon obtained by crime.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the boy, who can\u2019t be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, remains in custody and an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 23, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 A teen is facing weapons charges after police allege he brought a handgun, ammunition and knives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":{"0":"post-624011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-winnipeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624011","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=624011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}