{"id":848659,"date":"2026-08-06T22:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848659\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:14:14","slug":"winnipeg-man-facing-murder-charge-in-cross-lake-shooting-that-prompted-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/848659\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg man facing murder charge in Cross Lake shooting that prompted lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Winnipeg man has been charged with murder in a <a href=\"https:\/\/winnipeg.citynews.ca\/2026\/08\/01\/pimicikamak-cree-nation-lockdown-gunshots-fired-1-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">shooting that triggered a lockdown<\/a> in a northern Manitoba community on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Mounties say the 22-year-old was arrested Wednesday afternoon, five days after a 42-year-old man was found dead with a gunshot wound on Pimicikamak Cree Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Cross Lake RCMP were notified around 9:30 p.m. Friday by First Nation Safety Officers about a seriously injured individual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers attended the scene immediately and discovered two males, one with a gunshot wound,\u201d authorities said in a news release. He was pronounced dead on scene.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the First Nation were asked to stay indoors while police searched for a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan Rudolph was arrested and has been charged with second-degree murder. The allegation against him has not been tested in court.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Pimicikamak Cree Nation, or Cross Lake, is about 530 kilometres north of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Winnipeg man has been charged with murder in a shooting that triggered a lockdown in a northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-848659","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\/848659","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=848659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}