Second teenager arrested, charged in two ‘random’ homicides: WPS

By News Staff

A second teenager has been arrested in connection with two deaths in Point Douglas earlier this week and an alleged aggravated assault.

BACKGROUND: Point Douglas murder, Main Street assaults (Aug. 25)

Police say they took the 15-year-old boy into custody on Friday afternoon, one day after issuing a Canada-wide warrant for his arrest.

WPS later said the boy was arrested in Long Plain First Nation, a community about 120 kilometres west of Winnipeg.

Another 15-year-old boy had already been arrested and charged in what police are calling a series of “random attacks” near and along Main Street in the early morning of Aug. 22.

The teens have been charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault.

On Monday, police found the body of 36-year-old Danielle Ballantyne in a Point Douglas apartment – on Jarvis Avenue near Main Street – around 7 a.m.

Scene of the crime in Point Douglas on Aug. 22, 2022. (Credit: CityNews)

Earlier that morning, around 4:30 a.m., police found a seriously injured man in his 50s in a parking lot beside an apartment building on Main Street (800 block). He was transported to hospital in critical condition.

About thirty minutes later, WPS responded to the report of another injured man behind a hotel on Main Street (600 block).

He was transported to hospital in critical condition. That victim, identified as 54-year-old Marvin William Felix, died of his injuries in hospital.

Police vehicles on Main Street on Aug. 22, 2022. (Credit: CityNews)

Winnipeg police say a third assault of a man in his 50s happened that morning at Logan Avenue and Disraeli. It’s not yet clear if that assault is related to the others.

At a press conference Thursday, Const. Dani McKinnon said evidence found indicates there could be more victims.

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