Woman shot, boyfriend arrested next day: police
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A man has been charged with aggravated assault after a woman was shot and suffered “a life-altering injury.”
The 25-year-old was rushed to hospital in critical condition early Sunday and remained there Tuesday morning, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release.
Police said the man, 28, and the victim were “involved in an altercation” at an apartment on the 200 block of Wellington Crescent at about 2:15 a.m. The man pulled out a handgun, and the woman was shot at close range, the WPS said.
“Seriously injured, she escaped the building and waved down members of the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service in the area, who provided her with emergency medical care,” the release said.
The man got in a vehicle and drove away before police arrived at the apartment. The WPS major crimes unit obtained a warrant of arrest for Machuor Machar Akau.
Police were told Monday afternoon that Akau was in the area of Fermor Avenue and Beaverhill Road in Southdale, and officers arrested him there at about 1:40 p.m.
Akau was detained in custody. A WPS spokeswoman said she could not say whether he possessed the gun legally.
A 2015 Free Press article published days before the annual Winnipeg High School Football League Senior Bowl said Akau was born in Kenya and that his family moved to Canada when he was eight. He began playing football at Oak Park High School.
“I just fell in love with the game,” he told a reporter at the time.
Akau went on to join Carleton University’s football team.
Winnipeg Rifles head coach Georgie Wilson, who coached Akau for two years in the late 2010s, said he was a hardworking, respectful player during his time with the Canadian Junior Football League team.
“It’s terrible because at the end of the day, this lady who was injured, it sounds like a pretty horrific injury, pretty traumatic,” Wilson said of this weekend’s incident. “You hope she is OK.”
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