{"id":630484,"date":"2026-04-26T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630484\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:24:13","slug":"man-23-faces-numerous-firearm-related-charges-after-gun-fired-in-winnipegs-north-end-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630484\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 23, faces numerous firearm-related charges after gun fired in Winnipeg&#8217;s North End, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 23-year-old man is facing several firearm-related charges after police say he fired a gun in Winnipeg&#8217;s North End area on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers responded to Main Street and Euclid Avenue just before 4:30 p.m. on Saturday after receiving reports that a man had a firearm, Winnipeg police said in a Sunday news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the man was found in a yard on Austin Street, between Jarvis and Selkirk avenues, with a loaded sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun concealed on his body.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The weapon was seized as evidence, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Before the man was arrested, police said he had been walking in the area with a group of people and pulled out the gun, firing two shots in the air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 23-year-old man has been charged with:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Charging a firearm in a reckless manner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Careless use of a firearm, ammunition, prohibited weapon or device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carrying a concealed weapon, prohibited device or ammunition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Possession of a firearm, restricted\/prohibited weapon, firearm part or ammunition contrary to prohibition order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Failure to comply with condition of release order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was detained in custody, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old man is facing several firearm-related charges after police say he fired a gun in Winnipeg&#8217;s North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,236035,236034,22073,179229],"class_list":{"0":"post-630484","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-firearm-related","11":"tag-possession-of-a-firearm","12":"tag-winnipeg","13":"tag-winnipeg-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630484","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=630484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}