News briefs for Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Main Street closed in both directions after collision

8:55 AM

Northbound and southbound lanes on Main Street between Kilbride and Hartford avenues are closed to all traffic, according to the Winnipeg Police Service. The closure is expected to remain in effect through the morning rush hour.

There was an early-morning collision involving a police vehicle on Main just south of Kildonan Park.

Winnipeg police search for woman, 18, missing since May

10:15 AM

Winnipeg police are searching for an 18-year-old woman who has been missing since mid-May.

Cherish Meeches was last seen in the evening of May 13 in the Fort Richmond neighbourhood, police say.

She’s 5-7 with a medium build and medium-length brown hair. She was last wearing black pants, a black sweater, a black jacket, with white and pink shoes, and a black winter hat.

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

Missing Bunibonibee Cree Nation woman found safe

10:24 AM

A 20-year-old woman from Bunibonibee Cree Nation who had gone missing in Winnipeg was found safe.

Family reported Hayley Stinson missing to Oxford House RCMP on Monday. She had left the community, which is about 575 kilometres north of Winnipeg, on May 20 to travel to the city.

RCMP said she was last seen in Winnipeg on May 31 and hadn’t been in contact with her family.

Mounties said Wednesday morning Stinson had been located.

Suspect nabbed in Erickson home invasion

1:34 PM

An 18-year-old man has been arrested after a woman was seriously injured in a home invasion in Erickson.

RCMP were called to the home on Second Street NW just before 2 a.m., where they found the 30-year-old woman suffering “significant but non-life threatening injuries.”

Mounties say she was taken to a local hospital before she was transferred to Winnipeg.

RCMP had issued a news release Wednesday afternoon advising that the suspect was at large; a short time later they announced an arrest had been made.

Erickson is just south of Riding Mountain National Park.

RCMP search for Sandy Bay slaying suspect

4:03 PM

RCMP major crime investigators have named their suspect in an apparently targeted homicide in Sandy Bay Ojibway Nation.

Mounties allege Shawn Owen Spence, 26, shot and killed a 39-year-old man outside a home in the Indigenous community at about 6:30 a.m. Monday.

RCMP officers are actively searching for Spence, who they say is armed-and-dangerous and shouldn’t be approached, but have not yet found him, police say. He lives in Sandy Bay and also frequents Ebb and Flow First Nation.

He’s wanted on a warrant for first-degree murder, possession of a firearm while prohibited and possession of a firearm knowing its unauthorized. Mounties say Spence is 6-3, 180 lbs with brown hair and brown eyes, along with a tattoo of the Pittsburgh Penguins team logo on the left of his neck.

RCMP ask anyone who knows where he may be to call the Sandy Bay detachment at 204-843-7701, 911 or their local police.