{"id":630570,"date":"2026-04-26T21:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630570\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:28:16","slug":"man-23-faces-numerous-firearm-related-charges-after-gun-fired-in-winnipegs-north-end-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630570\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 23, faces numerous firearm-related charges after gun fired in Winnipeg&#8217;s North End, police say"},"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 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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>The weapon was seized as evidence, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 23-year-old man has been charged with: <\/p>\n<p>Charging a firearm in a reckless manner.Careless use of a firearm, ammunition, prohibited weapon or device.Carrying a concealed weapon, prohibited device or ammunition. Possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized.Possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm;.Possession of a firearm, restricted\/prohibited weapon, firearm part or ammunition contrary to prohibition order.Failure to comply with condition of release order.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was detained in custody, police said.\u00a0<\/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":439724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-630570","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\/630570","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=630570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}