{"id":706263,"date":"2026-05-31T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/706263\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:25:09","slug":"manitoba-police-watchdog-investigating-mans-death-after-hostage-taking-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/706263\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba police watchdog investigating man\u2019s death after hostage-taking, house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1780251909_508_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Winnipeg Police Service shoulder badge is seen on Sept. 2, 2021 at the Public Information Office in Winnipeg. Winnipeg police are trying to identify human remains found along the Red River north of the city&#8217;s downtown. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/David Lipnowski<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 31, 2026 | 11:15 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG \u2014 Manitoba\u2019s police watchdog is investigating a man\u2019s death after he allegedly slammed into a car and held a teen hostage in a burning home.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg police say the chaotic scene involving a 34-year-old man began on Friday just before 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they were attempting to stop a man who was driving a stolen vehicle and reportedly carrying a firearm but he slammed into a police vehicle and fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>After a several-minutes-long police chase on foot, police allege the man went into a home, barricaded himself inside with three people and pointed a firearm at officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Winnipeg Police Service shoulder badge is seen on Sept. 2, 2021 at the Public Information Office in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-706263","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\/706263","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=706263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}