Suspect wanted in killing of Winnipeg soccer player arrested in B.C., charged with murder
Posted August 4, 2026 12:28 pm.
Last Updated August 5, 2026 10:25 am.
A man wanted Canada-wide in the 2024 shooting of a 22-year-old Winnipeg soccer player has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
Winnipeg police say Tresor Horimbere, 24, was arrested in Langley, B.C., on July 30 with the help of RCMP. He was returned to Winnipeg on Monday.
Horimbere was wanted in connection with the July 13, 2024, killing of Mohamed Yusuf Abdullahi in the parking lot of Winnipeg’s Ralph Cantafio Soccer Complex.
Abdullahi had just finished playing soccer at the Canada African Cup of Nations tournament. He later died in hospital.
“It was a soccer game, it was an activity where people go to have fun, to be with friends, be with community. And it was shaken that night by this heinous act,” said WPS Sgt. Paul Barber said last fall.
Winnipeg Police Service investigators had already arrested and charged two suspects in that murder investigation.
On Jan. 20, officers arrested 26-year-old Ibrahim Bangura. And on Feb. 5, police arrested 27-year-old Norbert Kipala at the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre where he was being held in custody on an unrelated matter. Both men were charged with first-degree murder.
Until his capture, Horimbere was the fourth-most wanted fugitive in Canada, according to the list compiled by the Bolo Program. There was also a warrant out for his arrest by Ontario Provincial Police for 2023 firearms offences in a small town east of Ottawa.
All three accused are believed to have been spectators at the tournament on the day of the shooting. Authorities have previously described it as a targeted shooting with possible links to drugs and gangs.
