{"id":630029,"date":"2026-04-26T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630029\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:20:24","slug":"man-33-charged-in-crash-that-killed-mother-of-three-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630029\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 33, charged in crash that killed mother of three \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not release the name of the accused.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4173156_web1_IMG_0504.jpeg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"2048\" data-pswp-height=\"1536\"><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\/4173156_web1_IMG_0504.jpeg\" alt=\"SCOTT BILLECK \/ FREE PRESS FILES&#10;                                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\u2019s Road. A man has now been charged in her death.\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SCOTT BILLECK \/ FREE PRESS FILES<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Road. A man has now been charged in her death.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Road. The vehicle hit a guard rail and flipped. The driver remained on scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel-Pepple was rushed to hospital in critical condition but died two days later.<\/p>\n<p>Her sister told the Free Press last fall the family had been given few details about what caused the collision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been frustrating, shocking and sudden,\u201d Mary Oloyede said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newslettericons-danlett.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for Dan Lett | Not for Attribution\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was just peaceful, easygoing,\u201d Oloyede said of her older sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone who had an encounter with her would tell you she was a good person. She wasn\u2019t the kind of person to make trouble. She was just a lovely person at heart. I am privileged to have her as a sister\u2026 the closest person to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4173156_web1_bus-stop-victim.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"1846\" data-pswp-height=\"2048\"><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\/4173156_web1_bus-stop-victim.jpg\" alt=\"SUPPLIED&#10;                                Omotayo Samuel-Pepple, a mother of three, died last September.\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SUPPLIED<\/p>\n<p>Omotayo Samuel-Pepple, a mother of three, died last September. <\/p>\n<p>Samuel-Pepple\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Oloyede said her sister worked at one of the YMCA locations in the city and was on her way home when she was killed.<\/p>\n<p>fpcity@freepress.mb.ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 33-year-old man has been charged after a mother of three was struck and killed by a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":{"0":"post-630029","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\/630029","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=630029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}