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CancerCare building cleared

By: Staff Writer

3/11/2009 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

NON-ESSENTIAL staff at CancerCare Manitoba were sent home early Monday afternoon while police searched the McDermot Avenue facility for a suspect in a downtown carjacking believed to be armed.

CancerCare spokeswoman Roberta Koscielny said CancerCare officials were contacted by police just before 4 p.m., saying they believed an armed suspect was in the building.

The incident began about an hour earlier near the intersection of Ellice Avenue and Edmonton Street, when a car was stolen at gunpoint by two people.

Police tracked the stolen car to the Health Sciences Centre complex and one of the suspects was caught in a nearby parking lot.

Koscielny said police believed the other suspect fled into the CancerCare Manitoba building.

Police caught the suspect in the building's stairwell after 4 p.m.

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition November 3, 2009 A5

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