City police arrest Waterfront Drive slaying suspect

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A Winnipeg man is in police custody and has been charged with second-degree murder in connection to a weekend slaying at a distinctive condominium building in South Point Douglas.

Homicide investigators and a police tactical unit located the suspect near McGregor Street and Bannerman Avenue and arrested him without incident Monday, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release Thursday.

Officers were sent to the 500 block of Waterfront Drive at 1:48 a.m. Sunday and found 44-year-old Kerry Eastman suffering from stab wounds. The victim was taken to hospital in critical condition and died, police said.

Tenants and the landlord of the 62M Apartments at 62 MacDonald Ave. told the Free Press the slaying happened inside. The circular condo building is elevated by 10-metre concrete stilts and stands next to Disraeli Freeway, just west of Waterfront Drive.

Eastman was a member of Sandy Bay First Nation and residing in Winnipeg, police said.

Police have charged Wyatt Darius Prince, 24.