Man charged with stabbing three people

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Winnipeg police have charged a man in the stabbing of three people in a Flora Avenue home Friday night.

Police, including tactical officers armed with long guns, were called about a man trying to stab people at the residence on the 700 block, near Parr Street, at about 7:30 p.m.

Officers found three injured people and began to give them medical care, the Winnipeg Police Service said Tuesday.

A woman in her 20s and a man in his 30s were taken to hospital in unstable condition, later upgraded to stable. A second woman in her 20s was taken to hospital in stable condition.

Officers arrested a suspect near the intersection of McKenzie Street and Selkirk Avenue.

The man was suffering from a stab wound and was taken to hospital in unstable condition, where he was treated and released to police.

WPS spokesman Const. Jay Murray said it was unclear how the suspect sustained his injury.

Police said the suspect had been in the home with the victims, who he knew, where he drank alcohol to the point of intoxication and got into a dispute.

“The (first) stabbing initially occurred towards one person, then it sounds like there was a series of altercations that followed from that point,” Murray said. “The stabbings didn’t all occur in the same moment, but were in close proximity and in a short period of time.”

A 30-year-old Winnipeg man has been charged with three counts of assault with a weapon and five counts of failing to comply with conditions of a release order.

The accused has no prior convictions, court records show, but is before the court on unrelated charges of assault, assault with a weapon, mischief and theft for offences allegedly committed last spring.

— with files from Dean Pritchard

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