News briefs for Friday, May 5, 2023

Boy, 15, stabbed in schoolyard

11:10 AM

Winnipeg police are searching for suspects after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed by a group of youths in a schoolyard Thursday night.

Police dispatched to the reported stabbing in the West End just after 11 p.m., after the boy made his way down the block from Isaac Brock School on Clifton Street and a resident called for emergency responders.

The boy was taken to hospital in unstable condition but later upgraded to stable condition.

Major crimes investigators have determined the victim got into a confrontation with a group of youths near the school, which led to the boy being stabbed before the suspects ran.

Police have asked anyone with information to call major crimes investigators at 204-986-6219 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 204-786-8477.

(This brief has been updated to correct the name of the school.)

Missing woman, 42, found dead: RCMP

11:44 AM

A 42-year-old woman who went missing in northern Manitoba on April 27 has been found dead.

RCMP said searchers discovered Catherine Dumas’s body in a wooded area in Muskrat Bay in Split Lake on Thursday.

Her cause of death has not been determined.

Police search for missing 91-year-old woman

11:57 AM

Winnipeg police are searching for a vulnerable 91-year-old woman.

Police said Eleanor Loeb was last seen in the Chalmers area this morning between 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. They’ve activated a silver alert to help locate her.

Police said she’s 5-5 with a medium build and brown shoulder-length hair. She was last seen wearing a red sweater and brown pants, and uses a walker.

Police ask anyone with information on her whereabouts to call missing persons investigators at 204-986-6250.

Woman slain in Little Grand Rapids

1:04 PM

Two men were arrested after a homicide in Little Grand Rapids on Thursday.

RCMP were called about a disturbance at a home at about 4:15 p.m.

Officers arrested two men, ages 35 and 25, within the home.

RCMP later learned that a 63-year-old woman who lives in the home had been taken to the nursing station, where she was pronounced dead.

The death is being investigated as a homicide.

Woman missing in Selkirk

2:38 PM

RCMP are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing Selkirk woman.

Selkirk RCMP said on Friday Drusilla Kirkwood, 34, was last seen in the community on Manitoba Avenue on April 27 at about 5 p.m.

Kirkwood is described as 5-7 in height, 230 lbs., brown hair and eyes, and was last seen wearing black pants, red shirt, brown shoes and a grey sweatshirt.

Anyone with information is asked to call Selkirk RCMP at 204-482-1222 or submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at manitobacrimestoppers.com.

Two shot in Flin Flon

2:48 PM

A Flin Flon woman was flown to a Winnipeg hospital after she was shot Thursday night.

RCMP were called about shots fired at an address on Ross Street at about 9:45 p.m.

The 23-year-old woman remained in hospital on Friday afternoon, Flin Flon RCMP said.

A 28-year-old man suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries. He remains in hospital, RCMP said.

Investigators do not believe the incidents were random. They consider the woman’s shooting an “attempted murder.”

Flin Flon RCMP are asking anyone with information about the incident to call them at 204-687-1422 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

Province optimistic on flood forecast

3:00 PM

The Red River has crested and flooding season has essentially ended.

The Red River floodway is expected to remain in operation until the end of May.

“We’re going to be preparing for the worst, but hoping for the best, but things are looking very good for now,” Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Doyle Piwniuk said at a news conference Friday afternoon.

The rest of the spring and incoming summer is expected to be warmer than normal but we likely won’t see heavy precipitation, said Fisaha Unduche, the executive director of hydrologic forecasting and water management for Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure.

“Most Manitoba lakes are right at their optimum level for this time of the year, most of them are peaked or near peaked,” he said, noting just Dauphin Lake is slightly above operating range but not close to flooding.

This flood season was not nearly as severe as this time last year, and the Manitoba Emergency Co-ordination Centre will remain activated.

“While we haven’t seen the kind of dikes closures and evacuations that we did last year, we have seen a couple states of local emergency,” Johanu Botha, the head of Manitoba’s Emergency Management Organization, said.