City police investigate infant death

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Winnipeg police are investigating the death of a baby boy, after officers responded to a report of an infant in medical distress Monday.

Police and Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service members were called to a home on Atlantic Avenue, in the city’s Inkster-Faraday neighbourhood, at about 7 p.m.

The infant was transported to hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police spokesman Const. Claude Chancy said Wednesday.

“As with any child-related incident where injury or death is involved, the child abuse unit has assumed the investigation,” he wrote in an email. “The investigation is ongoing and further information is unavailable.”

People who live on the block said they noticed flashing lights and looked out their windows or doors to see emergency workers going in and out of a one-storey house.

“I saw someone carrying someone very small — I’m assuming it was a child, an infant — wrapped in a blue blanket,” said a witness, who declined to give her name.

She said a young woman came out of the home and also went into an ambulance.

Area residents said the home is rented and occupied by a woman and her children, including a newborn. They said about seven to 10 police cars were on scene, along with the ambulance and at least one fire truck.

Police were parked outside the house until early Tuesday afternoon, said another neighbour, who wouldn’t give her name.