On December 27, 2022, at approximately 8:00 p.m., the Winnipeg Police Service responded to the report of a fight on a Winnipeg Transit Bus at St. Anne’s Road and Niakwa Road involving several people, one of which was armed with a machete.
General Patrol Officers from the East District attended and located a 34-year-old male victim on the bus. The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service members treated and medically cleared the victim on the bus. Officers located the suspect in the first 100 block of Alpine Road and arrested him without incident. Officers seized a machete and a sheath in his possession as evidence.
Through their investigation, officers determined that the suspects were on the Transit bus causing a disturbance when a passenger intervened. The verbal dispute escalated when one of the suspects physically assaulted the victim, and a fight ensued. After the altercation, a second suspect produced a machete and struck the victim in the upper body. The victim disarmed the suspect with another passenger’s assistance and threw the machete off the bus. The suspect who had produced the machete was assisted off the bus and fled before the police arrived.
An 18-year-old male from Winnipeg is facing the following charges:
- Assault with a Weapon
- Possession of a Weapon
He was released with an Undertaking as mandated by the Criminal Code.