{"id":723892,"date":"2026-06-08T22:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/723892\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:29:11","slug":"manitoba-rcmp-watchdog-investigating-after-suspect-injured-in-police-shooting-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/723892\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba RCMP watchdog investigating after suspect injured in police shooting \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE \u2013 Manitoba\u2019s police watchdog is investigating after a man was hurt when an R-C-M-P officer fired their gun while trying to arrest him.<\/p>\n<p>Portage la Prairie RCMP say the man was not actually shot, but did suffer an unspecified injury.<\/p>\n<p>They say the 33-year-old suspect was transported by air ambulance from MacGregor, Man., to a Winnipeg hospital where he was treated and released.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/69f2385c564eeb6fd41d2567jpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"4692\" data-pswp-height=\"3128\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/69f2385c564eeb6fd41d2567jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Manitoba RCMP Headquarters in Winnipeg, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/David Lipnowski\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tManitoba RCMP Headquarters in Winnipeg, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/David Lipnowski<\/p>\n<p>The RCMP did not immediately respond to requests for more details on what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they were responding to a report of an altercation between a man and a group of teenagers when they located the suspect in a home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both the Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba and RCMP Major Crime Services are investigating.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 8, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE \u2013 Manitoba\u2019s police watchdog is investigating after a man was hurt when an R-C-M-P officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-723892","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\/723892","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=723892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}