Saturday shootings send pair to hospital

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Two people were hospitalized after a pair of shootings Saturday.

A 27-year-old Winnipeg man and his alleged victim both face charges after one such incident downtown. After gunshots were heard in the area, police spotted a man with a gun chasing another man around Qu’Appelle Avenue and Carlton Street at about 2:30 p.m.

Officers arrested a man and retrieved a handgun. Khadar Yasim Nur faces multiple firearm and assault charges and remains in custody.

The man being chased was found suffering from more than one gunshot wound in a taxi at the rear of the 300 block of Portage Avenue. He was also carrying a firearm, police said. The man was sent to hospital in unstable condition but was in stable condition late Sunday morning. He remained in police custody in hospital.

“We’re still working to determine what led up to this shooting, whether it was an argument or something else. It’s still part of our investigation,” Winnipeg Police Service spokesman Const. Jay Murray said at a news conference Sunday.

A man in his 30s was taken to hospital in unstable condition with gunshot injuries outside of Lipstixx Experience strip club at Arlington Street and Logan Avenue. Police were sent to the scene at about 7:30 p.m.

The man has since been upgraded to stable condition.

Murray asked that anyone who was at Lipstixx that day who might have witnessed the incident, or any nearby businesses that might have video of what happened, to reach out to police.

Murray said the idea that gun violence in Winnipeg only occurs at night is “a misconception” and that the city continues to see violent public incidents throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I don’t know how gun violence has been affected by the pandemic, or this year, but I can tell you anecdotally it certainly doesn’t feel like it has changed,” he said.

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