{"id":939296,"date":"2026-10-19T22:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939296\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:12:11","slug":"4-men-facing-charges-following-alleged-melee-at-winnipeg-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939296\/","title":{"rendered":"4 men facing charges following alleged melee at Winnipeg apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg police say four people are facing charges following a melee at an apartment building early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>WPS says officers responded to a report of a physical assault at an apartment along Portage Avenue around 2:15 a.m. on Oct. 18.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived at the apartment, they found a group of people in a hallway, including two men who were injured, and were later taken to hospital in stable condition. At the time, police also recovered a CO2-powered pistol.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of an investigation, police learned that an armed man was allegedly connected to an earlier incident at a nearby restaurant, where it\u2019s believed he was refused service, before staff allegedly saw a gun in his hand.<\/p>\n<p>From there, police learned that a group of men went to the apartment building and knocked on the door of a suite, and when a man inside answered, he was allegedly hit in the face with the pistol, before a fight took place and bear spray was used.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the men were all known to each other and that the armed man who was at the restaurant was one of the men involved during the altercation.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Winnipeg police took four men into custody, and they are all facing charges.<\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old man is facing charges of assault with a weapon, use of imitation firearm during commission of an indictable offence, carrying a concealed weapon prohibited device or ammunition, and possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>A 19-year-old old man is facing charges for possession of a weapon, and breach of recognizance.<\/p>\n<p>Another 19-year-old man is facing charges for possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, a 26-year-old man is facing charges for assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon.<\/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\/10\/1792447931_397_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":"Winnipeg police say four people are facing charges following a melee at an apartment building early Sunday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-939296","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\/939296","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=939296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}