News briefs for Monday, October 17, 2022

A 24-year-old woman is dead after she was struck by an SUV in a hit-and-run on Portage Avenue Sunday night.

Winnipeg police and fire paramedic crews raced to the intersection of Portage Avenue and Berry Street at about 11:30 p.m., where they found the seriously injured woman lying in the road. She was taken to hospital in unstable condition, where she later died.

Winnipeg Police Service traffic investigators have identified the victim as Shannon Joan Marie Romaniuk, 24, of Winnipeg.

Investigators have determined Romaniuk was crossing Portage Avenue when she was struck by the vehicle, which is a silver or grey late-model SUV. The driver and any occupants fled the scene.

Police ask anyone with  information, including dash camera footage of the SUV, to call the traffic division at 204-986-7086 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 204-786-8477.

Winnipeg Police Service homicide investigators have arrested a 21-year-old man accused in an early October slaying.

Creedence Justin Beardy, 27, of Winnipeg, died at the Health Sciences Centre early Oct. 2 of injuries police described as “suspicious.” He had been found lying on the ground unresponsive just over an hour earlier near the intersection of Sherbrook Street and Cumberland Avenue.

On Oct. 14, homicide detectives charged Tracayne Tassen Gage Marsden, 21, of Winnipeg, with second-degree murder, police said Monday. He was detained in custody.

Police said the victim and the accused knew each other.

Goldeyes outfielder Logan Hill has called it a career after eight years in professional baseball.

Hill, 29, spent the past three seasons in Winnipeg, tallying 33 home runs and 117 RBI in 230 games. Drafted by the MLB’s Pittsburgh Pirates in 2015, he reached the triple-A level in 2019 before coming to the American Association.

Hill majored in mathematics at Troy University before being drafted. This spring he completed a degree in data science from Maryville University of Saint Louis.

Canadian Armed Forces rangers and RCMP officers are searching for a missing fisher whose boat was found overturned and submerged in Cockeram Lake in northern Manitoba Sunday.

The 61-year-old man went fishing on the lake, which is about 10 kilometres east of the Town of Lynn Lake, with a 30-year-old woman. The pair were reported missing at 10 p.m. Saturday.

Police and army rangers began to search by air and on the ground early Sunday, where they found the boat submerged. In the evening Sunday, civilian searchers found the woman’s body. RCMP divers are on route to Lynn Lake to help in the search for the man, Mounties said Monday.

Mounties are focused on finding the man, but the investigation into what happened will continue, RCMP said.

An 81-year-old woman seriously injured in a collision on Sargent Avenue and Empress Street early Sunday has died, police say.

Winnipeg Police Service traffic investigators have identified the victim as Corazon Manguerra. Officers rushed to the intersection at 4:30 a.m. after receiving multiple 911 calls, where they found Manguerra and a 45-year-old man who had lesser injuries.

The occupants of the other vehicle, a late model, dark-coloured Dodge Caravan, had already run away from the scene by the time police arrived. Investigators said the Dodge had been spotted driving at a high speed before the collision.

Police ask anyone with information, including dash camera footage of the Dodge before the collision, to contact the traffic division at 204-986-7085 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 204-786-8477.

A decision to strip MacEwan University of nine victories from the 2022 Canada West conference schedule has bumped the Manitoba Bisons women’s soccer team to a fourth-place finish and the right to host the first home playoff date in program history Saturday.

MacEwan, first-place finishers with a 12-2 record, have been dropped to 3-11 and sixth place after it was ruled the Griffins had used an ineligible player, the conference announced Monday.

As a result, the 7-7-1 Bisons moved from fifth to fourth place and earned the right to host the fifth-place Regina Cougars in a four vs. five play-in game on Saturday. Game time at IG Field is 5:30 p.m.