Woman pushed relative through window, later struck victim with own crutches: police

A woman has been charged after she allegedly pushed a relative through an open window, then assaulted the victim with her own crutches and threatened her.

The bizarre series of events started in June, when a woman in her 20s went to see the adult victim at an apartment block in the Daniel McIntyre neighbourhood.

The woman would not let her inside, and the pair had an argument through an open second-storey window.

The woman below allegedly snuck into the building and entered the victim’s unlocked suite. The intruder pushed the victim, who was sitting on the window sill and fell to the concrete below, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release Friday.

The intruder ran off, and someone called emergency services. The victim suffered serious injuries, but no police report was made at the time.

The victim was on Selkirk Avenue on Wednesday when she saw the intruder, police said. They began arguing, and the woman grabbed the victim’s crutches, assaulted her with them and kicked at her injury, the WPS said.

The attacker ran off with the crutches, then threatened her during a phone call late Thursday afternoon, the release said. Police arrested a 21-year-old woman at about 7:15 p.m.

Presley Whitmore is charged with aggravated assault, robbery, uttering threat and four counts of failing to comply with a conditional sentence. She was detained in custody.

Whitmore pleaded guilty to possessing illicit drugs for the purpose of trafficking in June and was given a nine-and-a-half month conditional sentence, amounting to house arrest. She also pleaded guilty to failing to attend court.

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