News briefs for Monday, March 23, 2026

Two accused in shooting death

3:31 PM

Two men have been arrested after a 21-year-old man was shot to death in February.

Police were sent to an Agnes Street residence shortly before 7 a.m. on Feb. 11 after a report of a shooting. Officers arrived and found Jeremiah Riley Bateman with “a life-threatening upper body injury,” the Winnipeg Police Service previously said.

Officers provided first aid at the scene before the man was taken to hospital in critical condition. He died three days later.

Police asked for the public’s help in identifying suspects earlier this month.

On Monday, police announced the arrests of two men.

One of the men was apprehended Thursday when officers were sent to a house on the 300 block of Mountain Avenue at about 10:30 a.m. The accused barricaded himself in the home as members of the police tactical support team, drone unit, traffic division, bail compliance unit, Manitoba Integrated Violent Offender Apprehension Unit, crisis negotiators and school resource officers were sent to the scene.

The man was taken into custody at 4:45 p.m. after a standoff with police. No injuries were reported.

Michael James Jason Guimond, 28, was charged with manslaughter.

On Sunday, a second man was arrested in Bateman’s death. Jonathan Ryan Sinclair, 26, was arrested on the 100 block of Brazier Street and charged with second-degree murder.

Both men remain in custody.

Melita woman dead after highway collision

3:16 PM

A 69-year-old woman died Monday after the SUV she was driving collided with a tractor-trailer on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Brandon.

Police responded to the crash shortly after 10 a.m. Investigators learned the SUV was traveling northbound near the Kemnay turnoff, when it attempted to cross the highway and an eastbound semi struck it, Manitoba RCMP said in a release.

The driver of the semi was uninjured, but the woman died of her injuries. Police said she was from Melita, which is located roughly 100 kilometres southwest of Brandon.

The highway’s eastbound lanes were closed for several hours while RCMP investigated the scene.

Woman dead in head-on collision

11:54 AM

A 48-year-old Thompson woman is dead after head-on collision on a Manitoba highway Friday morning.

The woman was driving southbound at around 10 a.m. on Highway 280, about 80 kilometres north of Thompson, “when she attempted to pass a semi-truck when it was unsafe to do so and collided head on with a northbound truck,” RCMP said in a news release Monday.

The woman died at the scene. The driver of the other truck, a 23-year-old man from Gimli, was treated in hospital.

Snow and poor visibility are believed to have played a factor in the crash, RCMP said.