Pair assaulted in random attack downtown
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Three men were arrested after two people were assaulted by strangers while walking downtown Sunday night.
Police were sent to the 200 block of Hargrave Street at about 7:15 p.m. and found the injured victims — a 24-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man. Officers arrested three suspects nearby.
Police learned three suspects approached the victims as they walked southbound on Hargrave from Graham Avenue, and a “verbal confrontation” ensued. The victims tried to distance themselves from the three suspects, who assaulted the woman and then the man as he tried to intervene, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release Monday.
The suspects continued the attack as the victims were knocked to the ground, then fled on foot before officers arrived, police said.
The victims did not seek medical attention, the WPS said.
Two men, ages 26 and 27, face two counts each of assault and were released on undertakings. A 31-year-old man was detained under the Intoxicated Persons Detention Act.