{"id":705528,"date":"2026-05-31T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/705528\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T09:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:24:12","slug":"manitobas-iiu-to-probe-death-of-suspect-in-hostage-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/705528\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba&#8217;s IIU to probe death of suspect in hostage situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manitoba\u2019s Independent Investigation Unit (IIU) said it has taken over the investigation into the hostage situation after the death of a 34-year-old suspect.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, an attempted traffic stop escalated to a hostage situation with two teenage girls being held hostage.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers discharged their firearms and struck the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>IIU announced that the suspect has died of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>No one else was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778261834_283_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manitoba\u2019s Independent Investigation Unit (IIU) said it has taken over the investigation into the hostage situation after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-705528","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\/705528","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=705528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}