Furby Street shooting marks Winnipeg’s 47th homicide

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A man is dead after an early Saturday morning shooting at an apartment building on the 500 block of Furby Street.

In a release, Winnipeg police said officers responded to a call at 1:45 a.m. Saturday about gunshots heard in an apartment building in the downtown Spence neighbourhood near the University of Winnipeg.

Upon arrival, officers found a man who was “severely injured” in an apartment suite. Police provided emergency medical care and the man was then transported to hospital in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead.

His death is being treated as a homicide, making it the 47th to occur in Winnipeg this year, Winnipeg police Const. Jay Murray said.

It is too early in the investigation for police to comment on any possible suspects or say if anyone had been arrested, he said.

Two police cars remained outside the scene at noon on Saturday. Police detectives arriving at the building declined to comment on the incident.

A neighbour a few doors down, who asked not to be named, said police are called to the building at least once a week.

“It’s chaotic,” she said of the three-and-a-half storey building.

The woman didn’t hear anything out of the ordinary overnight, but saw police cars parked on the street around 5 a.m. She wasn’t surprised to learn someone had been killed there, she said.

The Spence neighbourhood has seen a spate of violence this year.

On Oct. 2, Creedence Justin Beardy, 27, was killed near Sherbrook Street and Cumberland Avenue. On Sept. 30, an unidentified 16-year-old boy was killed on Balmoral Street. On May 4, Scott Matthew Catcheway, 39, was shot and killed at a home on the 400 block of Young Street after a dispute. On the afternoon of Feb. 2, Heather Marie Cheyane Beardy, 26, was found dead in an apartment on the 400 block of Furby Street. On Jan. 23, Dustin Curtis Kyle Gibbs, 28, was shot and killed on the 400 block of Young Street.

Data from the Winnipeg police crime map shows the area saw 255 violent crimes between January and August 2022, the most current data available.

Anyone with information about the Saturday shooting is asked to call the Winnipeg police’s homicide unit at 204-986-6508 or Crime Stoppers at 204-786-TIPS (8477).

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