Teen victim identified in double homicide

The second victim of a double slaying in Winnipeg’s North End has been identified as a 16-year-old boy from Sagkeeng First Nation.

Police announced the age but not the name of the teenager in an updated news release on Tuesday. He was shot dead alongside 32-year-old Jason Robert Baker at a home on the 300 block of Boyd Avenue on March 12.

Officers were called to the home — identified by neighbours as 340 Boyd Ave. — around 5:30 p.m.; both victims had serious injuries. They were taken to hospital in critical condition but later died.

Police said Baker was a member of Hollow Water First Nation.

His relatives told the Free Press he was a father of six kids, and had been at the home to pick up his niece.

At the time of the shooting, Baker was wanted on an arrest warrant by police in Regina, where he was required to live as part of release conditions tied to a conviction. He also had a history with Winnipeg police, which included charges of assaulting a police officer with a weapon, fleeing police, kidnapping and aggravated assault.