{"id":816819,"date":"2026-07-21T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/816819\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:53:09","slug":"16-year-old-charged-with-killing-a-cat-in-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/816819\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old charged with killing a cat in Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>WARNING: This story contains disturbing details about the death of an animal.<\/p>\n<p>A 16-year-old has been charged with killing or injuring animals after Winnipeg police allege the youth confined a cat inside a plastic bag before killing it.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they were called with a report of a youth injuring a cat with a knife around 9:20 p.m. Monday. <\/p>\n<p>When general patrol officers responded to the area of Main Street between Alexander and Higgins avenues, they found the youth holding a knife with a dead cat nearby, police allege.<\/p>\n<p>Officers took the teen into custody and learned the youth had gone to the area with a cat confined inside a plastic bag. The cat was believed to be alive at the time, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The teen then removed the cat from a bag and assaulted it with a knife, killing it, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>The youth, who was detained in custody, has been charged with killing or injuring animals, causing unnecessary suffering to an animal and possession of a weapon. <\/p>\n<p>They were also charged with three counts of failing to comply with a sentence and four counts of failing to comply with conditions of a release order, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-816819","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\/816819","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=816819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}