Manitoba’s Independent Investigation Unit has taken over an investigation after a Winnipeg police officer shot and injured an 18-year-old woman while responding to reports of gunfire early Monday morning.<\/p>\n
The Winnipeg Police Service said a North District officer was in the area of Aikins Street and College Avenue at about 2:27 a.m. on Aug. 3 when he heard multiple gunshots nearby.<\/p>\n
According to police, the officer immediately went to investigate and encountered a woman and a 16-year-old youth. Police said a use of force incident followed, during which the officer discharged their firearm, injuring the woman.<\/p>\n
Officers provided emergency medical care at the scene before the woman was taken to hospital in unstable condition. Police said her condition was later upgraded to stable.<\/p>\n
Police said investigators recovered a firearm from the suspects.<\/p>\n
The Winnipeg Police Service said investigators have linked the woman and the youth to a shooting outside a home in the 300 block of College Avenue that happened at approximately the same time the officer heard the gunfire.<\/p>\n
The 16-year-old youth was arrested. Police have not released any charges.<\/p>\n
Because the incident meets the definition of a serious incident under The Police Services Act, the Winnipeg Police Service notified Manitoba’s Independent Investigation Unit, which has assumed responsibility for the investigation.<\/p>\n
The IIU will now lead the investigation, and Winnipeg police have directed all further inquiries to the civilian oversight agency. Information in this story is based on a Winnipeg Police Service news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manitoba’s Independent Investigation Unit has taken over an investigation after a Winnipeg police officer shot and injured an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-845821","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\/845821","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=845821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}