Two teenagers charged in slaying of 16-year-old boy

City police have charged two teenagers with second-degree murder after officers found a 16-year-old boy dead in the St. James Industrial neighbourhood Thursday morning.

Police responded to a request for a wellbeing check at a parking lot on the 1700 block of Wellington Avenue around 8 a.m., where they found the youth dead after suffering “significant injuries,” the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release Saturday.

Later that day, homicide investigators arrested a 17-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl at a business on the 600 block of King Edward Street and charged them in connection to the crime, WPS said.