residence in King Edward Street<\/a> in St. James late Friday morning, after a man running from police broke into the home and took people inside it hostage.<\/p>\nWinnipeg police said Friday there was a “exchange of gunfire” when the man confronted police as he was going out the back door.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, they said a 34-year-old suspect was killed after officers fired at him when he exited the residence. Police said the man was brandishing a firearm as he left the house.<\/p>\n
Officers had also shot at him earlier, when the suspect pointed a firearm at them through a window after he broke into the home, police said in a release Saturday. Several backup units including the tactical support team attended the scene.<\/p>\n
At around 11:09 a.m., an adult man ran out of the house and told them two teens were being held hostage by a stranger who had a firearm, the release said.<\/p>\n
Officers moved into an armed and barricaded protocol, it said. One of the teens was recued through a main floor window, but the other remained trapped inside with the suspect, police said.<\/p>\n
Police say the situation escalated and a fire was set inside the residence. Tactical support team members then entered the home and rescued the remaining teen, after which the suspect exited the home and was shot.<\/p>\n
Police said the 34-year-old had outstanding warrants. On Friday, police began looking for him at 10:27 a.m. when members of the Manitoba Integrated Violent Offender Apprehension Unit attempted to stop a vehicle he was driving.<\/p>\n
The man rammed a police car and drove off, police said. The vehicle was later confirmed to be stolen.<\/p>\n
Several minutes later, officers spotted him walking in the King Edward neighbourhood. He broke into the home on King Edward Street following a brief foot pursuit, police said.<\/p>\n
The fire in the home was successfully extinguished after police shot the man. No citizens or police personnel were injured, the release said.<\/p>\n
The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect in a hostage situation that took place inside a random home in Winnipeg Friday died after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,256187,256186,241837,22073,179229],"class_list":["post-704570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hostage-situation","tag-king-edward-street","tag-police-car","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704570","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=704570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}