Mexican man slain in Winnipeg

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Winnipeg’s sixth homicide victim of 2025 is a Mexican migrant who fell in with the wrong crowd, a close friend of the victim says.

Officers were sent to the 300 block of Pritchard Avenue Monday morning after a man was found dead outside a home. An autopsy determined his death was a homicide.

The Winnipeg Police Service identified the victim as 28-year-old Diego Moscoza, a Mexican citizen who had been living in Manitoba for the past two years.

Kathy Stickney met Moscoza in Mazatlan, Mexico in 2023 when he worked at a bar. Soon after he moved to Winnipeg with his girlfriend and for a time, lived with Stickney.

“Nicest kid you could meet,” Stickney said in a message to the Free Press. “He was always there to help if you needed him.”

Moscoza did odd jobs while in Winnipeg.

He turned to drugs and alcohol and “got involved with the wrong people,” Stickney said.

“He used to call me ‘mom’… he was like my son… but he just started hanging with the wrong people,” she said.

Moscoza is known to police. WPS spokeswoman Const. Dani McKinnon said he had lived in the U.S. but didn’t elaborate.

Anyone who might have had contact with the victim this month is asked to call police at 204-986-6508 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 204-786-8477 (TIPS).

nicole.buffie@freepress.mb.ca