Police investigating four separate weekend stabbings

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Police are investigating four unrelated weekend stabbings.

The incidents are being investigated by members of the Winnipeg Police Service’s major crimes unit. One arrest has been made.

The first happened at about 2:15 p.m. Saturday in the area of Carlton Street and Cumberland Avenue. General patrol officers applied pressure to the adult male victim’s injury.

The second happened outside the Smitty’s restaurant at 1017 St. James St. at approximately 12:10 a.m. Sunday. Police said Sunday that investigators believe an argument between two groups of people began inside the restaurant before spilling into the parking lot. Officers from the heavily armed tactical support team used a tourniquet on a man suffering from a serious lower-body injury. The 24-year-old man was transported to hospital in critical condition and later upgraded to stable, police said Sunday, adding a second man suffered minor injuries.

The victims and others involved were in their 20s and 30s, the WPS said Sunday. Police said Monday that a 31-year-old man was arrested.

General patrol officers were sent to the 300 block of Maryland Street at about 1:45 a.m. after a man in his 50s was stabbed. Officers applied a chest seal to the victim before he was taken to hospital.

Five minutes after they were sent to the Maryland stabbing, police were sent to a stabbing in the area of Salter Street and Anderson Avenue. Officers found a man in his 20s and applied a chest seal.

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