{"id":802247,"date":"2026-07-14T22:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802247\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:43:17","slug":"winnipeg-police-fatally-shoot-man-holding-weapon-after-brother-calls-for-help-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802247\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg police fatally shoot man holding weapon after brother calls for help \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

WINNIPEG \u2013 Manitoba\u2019s police watchdog says it\u2019s investigating after an officer fatally shot a man brandishing an edged weapon.<\/p>\n

The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba says the 42-year-old man\u2019s brother called 911 to their Winnipeg home on Monday night.<\/p>\n

The brother reported that the man was behaving erratically, had mental health issues and was not taking his prescribed medication.<\/p>\n

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Police say that about 10 minutes after they arrived, the man came out of the home, confronted them with the weapon and an officer shot the man.<\/p>\n

Deputy Chief George Labossi\u00e8re says the man was taken to hospital in critical condition and later died.<\/p>\n

He says it wasn\u2019t suitable to have the city\u2019s mental health crisis unit called in, as the situation seemed to be escalating.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg\u2019s Alternative Response to Citizens in Crisis program pairs a plain-clothed officer with a specialized mental health clinician.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never want to put our civilian members in positions that might present violence of any kind,\u201d Labossi\u00e8re said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 14, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG \u2013 Manitoba\u2019s police watchdog says it\u2019s investigating after an officer fatally shot a man brandishing an edged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-802247","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\/802247","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=802247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}