Suspect arrested after unprovoked assaults

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Winnipeg police have arrested a woman accused of four unprovoked assaults on random people in early May.

The first assault occurred at about 9:30 a.m. on May 1 at the intersection of St. Anne’s Road and Worthington Avenue, police said on Sunday.

Patrol officers went to the scene and found an 83-year-old woman with minor injuries who had been assaulted. Winnipeg fire paramedic crews assessed her and cleared her medically at the intersection.

A suspect had run off down St. Anne’s Road before officers got there. Police said the suspect, a woman, punched the elderly victim in the upper body repeatedly without having been provoked.

Major crimes police officers took over the investigation and identified a suspect, who was subsequently linked to other, similar attacks in the following days.

At a bus stop on the 1200 block of St. Mary’s Road on May 2, the same suspect is accused of approaching a 28-year-old woman and punching her repeatedly, without being provoked, before running off.

The victim received minor injuries and went for medical attention before reporting the attack to police.

On May 4, the same suspect is accused of punching a 36-year-old man on a Winnipeg Transit bus repeatedly, again without provocation, but the man wasn’t hurt, police said. The suspect then got off the bus with another passenger, a 39-year-old woman, who was also repeatedly punched.

Police said Sunday the suspect did not know any of the victims prior to the attacks.

On Friday, a 30-year-old woman from Winnipeg was arrested at her home on the 200 block of Ferry Road.

She’s been charged with counts of assault and held in custody.

— Staff