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On June 26, 2024, at approximately 10:26 a.m., the Winnipeg Police Service responded to the 400 block of Main Street for the report of a male who had been assaulted in a business parking lot. Responding officers took over custody of an adult male suspect held by intervening business staff and arrested him without incident.
In the following days, police received additional reports of similar unprovoked assaults in the city’s Exchange District. Three adult females had been reportedly physically attacked in separate incidents between 10:15 and 10:25 a.m., moments before the Main Street incident. Investigative officers determined the following sequence of incidents:
- 200 block of Bannatyne Avenue: The suspect threw a metal chair, striking a 68-year-old female victim in the lower body. The suspect fled on foot.
- 200 block of McDermot Avenue: The suspect pushed an elderly female using a mobility walker to the ground and began physically assaulting her in the upper body with a purse he was carrying. A local business owner and Good Samaritan intervened and successfully stopped the assault.
- 200 block of McDermot Avenue: The suspect physically assaulted a 38-year-old female victim who had also intervened in the assault, as mentioned above, before fleeing on foot.
- 400 block of Main Street: The suspect attended to a surface parking lot of a business where he opened the driver-side door of an occupied parked vehicle and kicked the 40-year-old male victim in the lower body. Staff from the business intervened and held him down until police arrived.
Officers linked the suspect to all four incidents through their investigation and obtained an unendorsed warrant for Assault and Assault with Weapon charges for his arrest.
On June 30, at approximately 10:45 a.m., patrolling Central District officers located the suspect in the Central Park area and arrested him without incident.
The suspect and the victims were unknown to one another before these incidents. The victims suffered minor injuries for which they did not require medical assistance.
Brendan Jordan Lee WHITE, 30, of Winnipeg, is charged with one count of Assault and three counts of Assault with a Weapon.
He was detained in custody.