Lipton Street death classified as homicide, man arrested

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The death of a man in the rear lane of Lipton Street in Winnipeg’s West End last September has been classified as a homicide.

Winnipeg police had past deemed the death on Sept. 11 last year as suspicious, though homicide detectives were investigating.

The man, now identified publicly as 56-year-old Robert Wayne Billings, was found badly injured in the alley between Sargent and Ellice avenues at about 4:30 p.m. and later died in hospital.

On Wednesday, police announced Billings’ death was a homicide. Christopher Michael Gatehouse, 43, was charged with manslaughter after he was arrested at a home on St. Paul Avenue on Tuesday.

He’s been detained. Police say he did not know Billings.