{"id":836467,"date":"2026-07-30T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836467\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:45:09","slug":"woman-charged-with-2nd-degree-murder-after-fatal-downtown-winnipeg-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836467\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged with 2nd-degree murder after fatal downtown Winnipeg stabbing"},"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 1 minute<\/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>A 23-year-old woman is charged with second-degree murder after a 58-year-old woman was fatally stabbed in downtown Winnipeg on Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called with a report a woman had been stabbed on Portage Avenue, in the area near Portage Place, around 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday. They found a woman with life-threatening injuries, police said in a Thursday news release.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to hospital in critical condition and later died of her injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the victim as Helen Annie Spence, 58, a member of Misipawistik Cree Nation (formerly known as Grand Rapids First Nation) who had been living in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Shante Trinity Paul, 23, was arrested early Wednesday morning and has been charged with second-degree murder. She remains in custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-836467","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\/836467","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=836467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}